cretus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkreː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkrɛː.tus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of cernō (“discern”). ==== Participle ==== crētus (feminine crēta, neuter crētum); first/second-declension participle separated, having been separated, sifted, having been sifted distinguished, having been distinguished, discerned, having been discerned, seen, having been seen ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === Perfect participle of crēscō (“increase, grow”). ==== Participle ==== crētus (feminine crēta, neuter crētum); first/second-declension participle having [...]: become visible, sprung from, arisen, come forth, been born having increased or augmented ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “cretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cretus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “cretus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.