crepo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcrepar(“to backcomb”)
crepo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcrepar(“to rage”)
crepo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcrepare
Imitative of harsh sounds with unidentifiable ultimate derivation (de Vaan gives the reconstructed root as*ḱrep-(“to rattle, crackle”)); compareHittite[script needed](karpi-,“anger”),Sanskritकृपते(kṛpate,“to wean, mourn”),[1]Proto-Slavic*kričati(“to scream”),Proto-Germanic*krītaną(“idem”), andLatinstrepō(“to rattle”) for the ending.
crepō (present infinitivecrepāre,perfect activecrepuī,supinecrepitum);first conjugation, nopassive
- torattle,rustle,clatter
- tocrack,creak
- (figuratively) toprattle,talknoisily
- to boast
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crepō, -āre”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page143
- “crepo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crepo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crepo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Ernout, Alfred,Meillet, Antoine (1985) “crepo”, inDictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections ofJacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published2001, pages149b–150a
crepo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcrepar