The corpus record — Latin

recresco

recresco · v. n

to grow again

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

rĕ-cresco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3, v. n.,

I to grow again, to grow up or increase again (mostly poet. and post-Aug.): ergo terra tibi libatur et aucta recrescit, Lucr. 5, 260: favete nomini Scipionum, suboli imperatorum vestrorum, velut accisis recrescenti stirpibus, Liv. 26, 41 fin.: praecisa ossa, Plin. 11, 37, 87, § 216: luna pleno orbe, Ov. H. 2, 5: recretis crinibus, that have grown again, Paul. Nol. Carm. 21, 560.

In the wild

recrescenti Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 p66
recrescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.45.p3
recrescunt Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p47
recrescit Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.260
recrescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p23
recrescenti Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.41.22

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.