cretus

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

Perfect passive participle of cernō (“discern”).

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

First/second-declension adjective.

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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.