crescentia

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κρέσσων γὰρ οἰκτιρμοῦ φθόνος → it is better to be envied than pitied | to be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied (Pindar, Pythian 1.85)

Source

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

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

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

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

Latin > German (Georges)

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

Latin > English

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