grow Copy link Outline A. Intr.I. To increase by g.ing1. cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3 (of all kinds of growth)2. augeor, augesco3. ădŏlesco, lēvi, ădultum, 3 (to g. to maturity)4. nascor, nātus, 3 (to be produced5. prōmitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (with pron. refl. or as pass. = to shoot up)II. To becomeB. Trans.I. To cultivateII. To suffer to grow; e. g. hair • grow: A. Intr.: I. To increase by g.ing: 1. cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3 (of all kinds of growth): trees g., arbores c., Lucr.: infants g., infantes c., Quint.: Atlas grew to an immense size, A. crevit in immensum, Ov.: Cic. In same sense also incresco: a person who is g.ing most needs food, maxime cibo eget qui increscit, Cels. 1, 3, ad fin.: Col. 2. augeor, augesco: v. to increase. 3. ădŏlesco, lēvi, ădultum, 3 (to g. to maturity): an herbaceous verdure which g.s gradually, viriditas herbescens, quae sensim a., Cic. Sen. 15, 51: until the hair should g., quoad capillus adolesceret, Gell. 17, 9, fin.: to g. in size or thickness, a. in amplitudinem, crassitudinem, Plin. 4. nascor, nātus, 3 (to be produced: of vegetables): mistletoe g.s upon the fir, viscum in abiete n., Plin. 16, 44, 93: (the branch) on which the grapes g., unde n. uvae, Varr. R. R. 1, 31, init.: hazels g. from slips, plantis coryli n., Virg. G. 2, 65. 5. prōmitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (with pron. refl. or as pass. = to shoot up): nor does any tree g. more rapidly, nec ulla arborum avidius se p., Plin. 16, 26, 44. Also act. = to let g., esp. to allow to g. long or wild: to let boughs g. longer, ramos longius p., Col. 5, 6, ad init.: to let the hair or beard g. long, capillam, barbam, p., Liv. 6, 16. Simly, immitto, 3: that vine is let g. without pruning for producing grapes, ea vitis immittitur ad pariendas uvas, Varr. R. R. 1, 31: Virg. Aen. 3, 593. Phr.: the place where frankincense g.s, ubi tus gignitur, Pl. Trin. 4, 2, 89: everything which g.s in the earth, omnia quae terra gignit, Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4: v. to produce. II. To become: fīo, factus, fĭĕri: v. to become. (N.B.--To grow with an adj. may often be expr. by an incept. verb: e. g. to g. light, lūcesco, lūcisco; to g. black, white, green, nigresco, albesco, viresco: see the respective adjj.) B. Trans.: I. To cultivate: sĕro, sēvi, sătum, 3: g. no tree in preference to the sacred vine, nullam sacra vite prius severis arborem, Hor. Od. 1, 18, 1: the mistletoe is incapable of being g.n in any way, viscum omnino satum nullo modo nascitur, Plin. 16, 44, 93: v. to cultivate, plant. II. To suffer to grow; e. g. hair: prōmitto, immitto, 3: v. supr. A (5).
strong, to become Copy link Outline I. To gain strength, in gen. senseII. To recover strength after illness • strong, to become or grow: I. To gain strength, in gen. sense: expr. by fieri s. fieri coepisse with adj. (v. strong). Phr.: the vine becomes s. enough to bear the weight, vitis vires concipit et intra se pascit suffecturas oneri, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 173. II. To recover strength after illness: vălesco, 3 (rare), Lucr. 1, 941 (933). More usual words are, rĕvălesco, convălesco., etc. (v. to recover, B.). [For fig. sense, v. to strengthen (II.), to increase (B.)]
GROW Copy link • GROW 1. To increase, (α) PROPR., Of organic bodies, crescere: succrescere (to grow gradually). To grow in height, in altitudinem crescere (of things): adolescere (of young persons): to grow in breadth, length, in latitudinem, in longitudinem crescere: to let one’s beard, one’s hair grow, barbam, capillum promittere; barbam, comam alere: to let one’s nails grow, ungues non resecare or non recidere: to be well grown, procera esse statura (to be tall); dignitate corporis placere (to be of graceful appearance). (β) IMPROPR., Of other things, crescere (general term): incrementum capere (to increase, to grow bigger, more considerable): augescere: augeri (to increase in number): ingravescere (in strength; e.g., of an illness or evil). To be produced, etc., gigni: nasci (to come to light or forth): provenire (to come forth in a growing manner): to grow in or upon anything, innasci in aliqua re or alicui rei: to grow on anything, annasci in aliqua re: no wood grows in this country, haec terra est sterilis materiae: on the banks of no river does more grass grow than on this, gignendae herbae nullus fluvius est aptior quam hic. To become, fieri: evadere (to spring or come forth). ☞ To “grow” with an adjective, is mostly translated by inchoative verbs in scere: to grow dry, arescere; gray, canescere; feeble, languescere; lukewarm, tepescere; green, virescere; useless by age, exolescere; rich, ditescere, or (ex mendico) divitem fieri; sweet, dulcescere; young, juvenescere; mild, mitescere; soft, mollescere; fat, pinguescere; hard, durescere; lean, macrescere; tame, mansuescere; ripe, maturescere; black, nigrescere, etc. [Vid: the respective adjectives, Old, etc.] : to grow humble, se or animum submittere; submisse se gerere: to grow obsolete, obsolescere: grown out of use, obsoletus (e.g., verbum): to grow old, senescere; senem fieri: to grow worse, deteriorem fieri (e.g., of anybody’s circumstances); also, in pejorem partem verti et mutari: in pejus mutari: aggravescere: ingravescere (of an illness); pejorem fieri (of an invalid, Cels.): to have grown worse, deteriore statu or conditione esse, pejore loco esse (of anybody’s circumstances): to grow blind, lumina oculorum or lumina, aspectum amittere: to grow in favor [Vid: FAVOR]: to grow up, adolescere. To be grown up, adultum esse: to grow together, coalescere alicui rei: to grow poor, ad inopiam, or egestatem or paupertatem redigi: to grow tired or weary of anything, satietas alicujus rei me capit. 2. v. TRANS., serere (general term): arare: exarare (of corn; e.g., multum frumenti exarare): to grow vines, vinum serere or conserere; vites ponere; vitem colere; vineam instituere: vinetum instituere or ponere (the latter = to plant a vineyard): the growing of potatoes, *solanorum tuberosorum cultura: the Gauls consider it disgraceful to grow their own corn, Galli turpe esse ducunt, frumentum manu quaerere. Vid: also, To CULTIVATE.