accretio

μὴ τὴν ὄψιν καλλωπίζου, ἀλλ' ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν ἴσθι καλός → Don't beautify your face, but be beautiful in your habits (Thales, in Diog. Laertius 1.37)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

accrētĭo: ōnis, f. accresco,
I an increasing, increment: lunam accretione et deminutione luminis ... significantem dies, Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68.

accrētĭō (adcr-), ōnis, f., accroissement, augmentation : Cic. Tusc. 1, 68.

accrētio, ōnis, f. (accresco), die Zunahme, accretio et deminutio luminis (des Mondlichts), Cic. Tusc. 1, 68.

accretio accretionis N F :: increase, an increasing, increment