increpo

increpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of increpar

From in- + crepō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪŋ.krɛ.poː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiŋ.kre.po]

increpō (present infinitive increpāre, perfect active increpuī or increpāvī, supine increpitum or increpātum); first conjugation

1. to rattle, twang or make a similar noise; to cause to give forth a sound, sound, resound
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.18:

     […] nunc vērō, mē tōtam esse in metū propter ūnum tē; quicquid increpuerit, Catilīnam timērī, […] .

     […] but now truly, that I am entirely afraid on account of you alone; that whatever makes a noise, Catiline is to be feared, […] .

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.812:

     annuit Alcīdēs increpuitque lyram

     Alcides nodded assent and sounded [his] lyre.
     (Alcides: Alternate name for Hercules. The extant text of Ovid’s Fasti (poem) includes only the first six months of the Roman year; this is the final line for June.)

2. to rebuke, chide, protest, complain

   Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, accūsō, corripiō, incūsō, obloquor, exprobrō, arripiō, pulsō, acclāmō, inclāmō, animadverto, īnsector, reprehendō, arguō

3. (poetic) to exhort, stimulate, urge

   Synonyms: sollicitor, perpello, eccito, instigo, instinguo, adhortor, excito, excio, cieo, molior, ago

• increpātiō

• “increpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• increpo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “increpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “increpo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /inˈkɾepo/ [ĩŋˈkɾe.po]
• Rhymes: -epo
• Syllabification: in‧cre‧po

increpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of increpar