crescentia

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

crescentĭa: ae, f. cresco,
I an increase, augmentation: dierum (opp. brevitates), Vitr. 9, 9, 7.

crēscentĭa, æ, f. (cresco), accroissement : Vitr. Arch. 9, 8, 7.

crēscentia, ae, f. (cresco), das Wachsen, Zunehmen, correptiones dierum aut crescentiae, Vitr. 9, 8 (9), 7: brevitates et crescentiae horarum, ibid.

crescentia crescentiae N F :: increase, lengthening; augmentation (L+S)