Where does “crescent” come from?
crescent (Latin) comes from Latin cresco, from Proto-Italic krēskō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ker- — army.
crescent (Latin): third-person plural future active indicative of...
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Ancestry of “crescent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | cresco | I increase, rise, grow, thrive; multiply,... |
| 2 | Proto-Italic | krēskō | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |