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creole, create, crescent, kore, cereal
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Proto-Indo-European *ḱer(h₁)- to grow, to increase
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Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁eh₂yé-ti to make grow transitive
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Italic *krēāō
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Latin creō I create, I give birth to, I prepare, I choose
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Western Romance
- French créer to create
- Italian creare to create, to appoint, to set up
- Spanish criar to rear (a child)
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Portuguese criar
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Portuguese cria one who is raise, offspring, kid, ward
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Portuguese crioulo someone raised in the colonies, creole
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Spanish criollo someone raised in the colonies, creole
- English creole
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- Spanish crear to create reborrowed from Latin
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Latin creātus created, begotten, chosen
- English create
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Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁sḱé-ti to be growing iterative/continuative
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Italic *krēskō
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Latin crēscō I increase, I thrive, I become visible
- Sardinian creschi
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Eastern Romance
- Romanian crește grow, increase, raise, cultivate
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Western Romance
- French croître to grow
- Italian crescere to grow
- Spanish crecer to grow
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Latin accrēscō
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Western Romance
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French accroître to increase
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French accrû increased past participle
- English accrue
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- Italian accrescere to increase
- Spanish acrecer to increase
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Latin accrētiō increment
- English accretion
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Latin concrēscō I thicken, condense, curdle, stiffen, congeal
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Latin concrētus condensed, thick, hardened, solid past participle
- English concrete [1]
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Latin dēcrēscō
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Western Romance
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French décroître to decrease
- English decrease
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Latin incrēscō I grow in, I swell
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Western Romance
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Old French encroistre to increase
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Anglo-Norman encreistre to increase
- English increase
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- Italian increscere to regret
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Latin incrēmentum growth, development, increment
- English increment
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Latin crēscēns increasing, thriving, becoming visible active participle
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Western Romance
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French croissant crescent, crescent moon, croissant
- English crescent
- English croissant
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Italian crescente growing, rising, waxing (moon)
- Italian crescente sourdough
- Spanish creciente crescent of a waxing moon, increasing
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Latin crēscendus that which is to increase, that which is to become visible future passive participle
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Western Romance
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Italian crescendo growing, increasing
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English crescendo
- Japanese クレッシェンド kuresshendo crescendo
- Spanish crescendo crescendo
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- Spanish creciendo growingly
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Proto-Indo-European *ḱorwo growing adjective
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Hellenic *kórwā
- Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀷 ko-wa girl, maiden
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Ancient Greek κόρη kórē girl, maiden
- Greek kóri daughter, girl, kore (statue)
- English kore
- Ancient Greek Κόρη Kórē Cora, Persephone. [2]
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Hellenic *kórwos
- Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀺 ko-wo boy, youth
- Ancient Greek κόρος kóros boy, youth
- English kouros
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Proto-Indo-European *ḱeres-s growthful?
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Germanic *hirsaz
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Germanic *hirsijô
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North Germanic
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Old Norse
- Danish hirse millet
- Icelandic hirsi millet
- Finnish hirssi millet
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West Germanic
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Old High German hirso millet
- German Hirse millet
- Yiddish הירזש hirzh millet
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Italic *kerēs
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Latin Cerēs Goddess of Bounty and Agriculture [2]
- English Ceres
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Latin Cerealis of Ceres
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French céréale cereal all meanings
- English cereal
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Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-mn̥ grown resultative
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Old Armenian սերմն sermn seed, berry, bud, progeny, race
- Armenian սերմ serm seed
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Proto-Indo-European *sem-ḱer-
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Italic
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Latin sincērus clean, sound, uninjured, natural, sincere
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Eastern Romance
- Romanian sincer sincere
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Western Romance
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French sincère sincere
- English sincere
- Italian sincero sincere, honest
- Spanish sincero sincere, honest
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Collected English words
creole, create, accrue, accretion, concrete, decrease, increase, increment, crescent, croissant, crescendo, kore, kouros, Ceres, cereal, sincere
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Many languages borrow the Latin concretus for the adjective meaning "tangible, not abstract", but mostly only English uses it for the building material. Most other Latin-borrowing languages derive the word for the building material from Latin bitūmen (mineral pitch, bitumen) instead. Latin did not have a word for "concrete" distinct from "cement".
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Persephone is called the Maiden, in relation to Demeter, the Earth Mother". Ceres, in the interpretatio graeca, considered analogous Demeter.