crescentia
From LSJ
ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει → easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
crescentĭa: ae, f. cresco,
I an increase, augmentation: dierum (opp. brevitates), Vitr. 9, 9, 7.
