crescer
Portuguese
/kɾɨʃ.ˈseɾ/, /kɾe.ˈse(ʁ)/, /kɾe.ˈse(ɾ)/, /kɾe.ˈse(ɾ)/, /kɾe.ˈse(χ)/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to grow become bigger or taller
- (intransitive) to grow up to become older
- (intransitive) to grow in number or extent
- (intransitive) to become more important (within a group or context)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese crecer inherited from Latin crēscere (grow) inherited from Proto-Italic *krēskō derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-, *ḱer- (grow, become bigger).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱreh₁-, *ḱer-
Gloss
grow, become bigger
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- creber Latin
- cresco Latin
- crēscere Latin
- crēscēns Latin
- crēscĕre Latin
- crescere Italian
- *ḱreh₁-, *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European
- anticrescimento Portuguese
- crescimento Portuguese
- creistre Old French
- croistre Old French
- créixer Catalan, Valencian
- crește Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- crecer Old Portuguese
- créisser Occitan
- *krēskō Proto-Italic
- crecer Asturian
- crescro Dalmatian
- crìssi Istriot