decresco

See also: decresço

Italian

Verb

decresco

first-person singular present indicative of decrescere

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin de-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti

Latin crēscō

Latin dēcrēscō

From de- (“of; from, away from”) + crēscō (“grow”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈkreːs.koː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈkrɛs.ko]

Verb

dēcrēscō (present infinitive dēcrēscere, perfect active dēcrēvī, supine dēcrētum); third conjugation, no passive

to grow less or shorter, decrease, wane, dwindle
Antonyms: adolēscō, accrēscō, crēscō, excrēscō, olēscō, glīscō
to vanish, fade, disappear, pass away by diminution

Conjugation

The only attested passive forms are those from dēcrētus, which is used in an active sense.

Conjugation of dēcrēscō (third conjugation, no passive)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	dēcrēscō	dēcrēscis		dēcrēscit	dēcrēscimus	dēcrēscitis		dēcrēscunt
	imperfect	dēcrēscēbam	dēcrēscēbās		dēcrēscēbat	dēcrēscēbāmus	dēcrēscēbātis		dēcrēscēbant
	future	dēcrēscam	dēcrēscēs		dēcrēscet	dēcrēscēmus	dēcrēscētis		dēcrēscent
	perfect	dēcrēvī	dēcrēvistī		dēcrēvit	dēcrēvimus	dēcrēvistis		dēcrēvērunt, dēcrēvēre
	pluperfect	dēcrēveram	dēcrēverās		dēcrēverat	dēcrēverāmus	dēcrēverātis		dēcrēverant
	future perfect	dēcrēverō	dēcrēveris		dēcrēverit	dēcrēverimus	dēcrēveritis		dēcrēverint
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	dēcrēscam	dēcrēscās		dēcrēscat	dēcrēscāmus	dēcrēscātis		dēcrēscant
	imperfect	dēcrēscerem	dēcrēscerēs		dēcrēsceret	dēcrēscerēmus	dēcrēscerētis		dēcrēscerent
	perfect	dēcrēverim	dēcrēverīs		dēcrēverit	dēcrēverīmus	dēcrēverītis		dēcrēverint
	pluperfect	dēcrēvissem	dēcrēvissēs		dēcrēvisset	dēcrēvissēmus	dēcrēvissētis		dēcrēvissent
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	dēcrēsce		—	—	dēcrēscite		—
active	future	—	dēcrēscitō		dēcrēscitō	—	dēcrēscitōte		dēcrēscuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		dēcrēscere		—		dēcrēscēns		—
future		dēcrētūrum esse		—		dēcrētūrus		—
perfect		dēcrēvisse		—		—		—
perfect potential		dēcrētūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		dēcrēscendī	dēcrēscendō		dēcrēscendum	dēcrēscendō	dēcrētum		dēcrētū

Derived terms

dēcrēmentum

Descendants

→ Catalan: decréixer
→ English: decrease
→ Galician: decrecer
→ Italian: decrescere
→ Portuguese: decrescer
→ Spanish: decrecer

References

“decresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“decresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“decresco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit