procresco Latin · revision 36751

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *k(w)reh₁-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōcrēscō''' (present infinitive prōcrēscere); third conjugation^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ The TLL gives the perfect ''prōcrēvī''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prō-|crēscō|t2=to grow]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|crēscō]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*krē-|t=to grow, increase]] and [[ine-pro|*k(w)reh₁-|t=to become bigger, stronger]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it first in Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008) who says that some derive all things from fire, earth, air and water (''omnia ... ex igni, terra atque anima procrescere et imbri''), that is, that they spring from them.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lucretius also uses it of things that, once born, grow on,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) and of the force of an immense disease that springs up from earth and sky.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it ante- and post-classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Fronto applies it to love: if tended dutifully, it would not grow beyond the myrtles and laurels.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Later it is used of hair growing back, in the medical poem of Serenus Sammonicus,^(TLL) of whatever grows in a stem, in Augustine,^(TLL) and of swollen eyelids, in Vegetius.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of things springing from the elements and growing on.^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 100–170 AD – Fronto uses it figuratively of love.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 3rd century AD – Serenus Sammonicus uses it of hair growing back.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it of growth in a stem.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|spring up]], arise, come forth (from something).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To grow on, grow larger, [[m|en|grow up]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To grow, increase.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Manuscripts sometimes confuse it with [[procedo|alt=prōcēdō]].^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}