cretus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.tus/, [ˈkreːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.tus/, [ˈkrɛːt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of cernō (“discern”).

Participle

crētus (feminine crēta, neuter crētum); first/second-declension participle

1. separated, having been separated, sifted, having been sifted
2. distinguished, having been distinguished, discerned, having been discerned, seen, having been seen

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	crētus	crēta	crētum		crētī	crētae	crēta
Genitive	crētī	crētae	crētī		crētōrum	crētārum	crētōrum
Dative	crētō		crētō		crētīs
Accusative	crētum	crētam	crētum		crētōs	crētās	crēta
Ablative	crētō	crētā	crētō		crētīs
Vocative	crēte	crēta	crētum		crētī	crētae	crēta

Etymology 2

Perfect participle of crēscō (“increase, grow”).

Participle

crētus (feminine crēta, neuter crētum); first/second-declension participle

1. having [...]: become visible, sprung from, arisen, come forth, been born
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.191:

     Vēnisse Aenēān, Troiānō sanguine crētum.

     [There] had come [to Carthage a man,] Aeneas, born of Trojan blood.

2. having increased or augmented

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	crētus	crēta	crētum		crētī	crētae	crēta
Genitive	crētī	crētae	crētī		crētōrum	crētārum	crētōrum
Dative	crētō		crētō		crētīs
Accusative	crētum	crētam	crētum		crētōs	crētās	crēta
Ablative	crētō	crētā	crētō		crētīs
Vocative	crēte	crēta	crētum		crētī	crētae	crēta

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’s 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.