crebro

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin crēbrum (“thick, numerous, frequent”), from Proto-Italic *krēzros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁sro-, derived from the root *ḱer- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛ.bro/
• Rhymes: -ɛbro
• Hyphenation: crè‧bro

Adjective

crebro (feminine crebra, masculine plural crebri, feminine plural crebre)

1. (literary) frequent

   Synonym: frequente

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIX”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 67–69; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Assai t'è mo aperta la latebra
     che t'ascondeva la giustizia viva,
     di che facei question cotanto crebra

     Now to you is opened enough the hideaway which had concealed from you the living justice, of which you made such frequent questioning

   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto ventesimoterzo [Twenty-third Canto]”, in Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland]‎^[3], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 105:

     Dopo non molto la bara funebre
     Giunse a splendor di torchi e di facelle,
     Là, dove fece le strida più crebre
     Con un batter di man gire a le stelle

     Not long after, the funereal casket came to the shine of candles and small torches, there, where it made the more frequent cries reach the heavens with a clapping of hands

Further reading

• crebro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From crēber (“close, repeated, frequent”).

Adverb

crēbrō (comparative crēbrius, superlative crēbrissimē)

1. close one after another; repeatedly, often, frequently

Synonyms

• (frequently, repeatedly): crēbra, crēbriter

Related terms

• crēber
• crēbra
• crēbrē
• crēbrēscō
• crēbritās
• crēbriter

References

• “crebro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crebro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crebro 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)
• crebro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • he has made several mistakes: saepe (crebro, multa) peccavit, erravit, lapsus est