procreo

prō-crĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bring forth, beget, generate, procreate, produce (class.).

I.

Lit.:

procreare liberos lepidum est onus,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 88:

multiplices fetus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 128:

de matrefamilias duo filios,

id. Rep. 2, 19, 34:

liberos ex tribus uxoribus,

Nep. Reg. 2, 3:

hoc solum, in quo tu ortus et procreatus es,

Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 4; id. Fin. 3, 19, 62; Plin. Pan. 26, 6:

natura hinc sensus animantum procreat omnes,

Lucr. 2, 880:

terra ex minutissimis seminibus tantos truncos ramosque procreat,

Cic. Sen. 15, 52.—

II.

Trop., to produce, make, cause, occasion (class.):

usum,

Lucr. 4, 835:

tribunatus, cujus primum ortum inter arma civium procreatum videmus,

Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19:

vetus verbum est: Leges bonae ex malis moribus procreantur,

Macr. S. 2, 13.