Crepo, crepas, crépui, crepitum, pen cor. rarò crepáui, crepatÛ crepâre, pen prod. To make a noyse or sounde: to gyue a cracke or crash: to speake or talke: to preach or prayse.Intestina tibi crepant Plaut.Thy belly crowleth.Crepuit foris.Terent.Crepuit clarè foris.Plaut.The doore made a lowde noyse.Arma ciuilis crepuere belli.Senec.Dentes crepuere. Pers. His teeth crashed.Sonabile sistrum crepuit.Ouid.Pede crepante difilire. Horat. Crepare.To prayse or speake much of. Horat. Quis post vina grauem militiam aut pauperiem crepet? Sulcos & vineta crepat mera. Horat. He talketh nothing but of his furrowes and vineyardes.Siquid Stertinius veri crepat. Horat. If he talke any thing that is true. Crepare.Virg.To burst or breake.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
crĕpo, ŭi, ĭtum, 1, v. n. and a. [Sanscr. krap, to lament; cf. crabro] (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose; in class. prose, concrepo). I.Neutr., to rattle, crack, creak, rustle, clatter, tinkle, jingle, chink, etc. A. In gen.: foris, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 34; Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11: fores, id. Eun. 5, 7, 5; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 121; 3, 3, 52: intestina (with crepitant), Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 26: herba Sabina ad focos, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 58; cf. Ov. F. 4, 742: sonabile sistrum, id. M. 9, 784 (cf. crepitanti sistro, Prop. 3 (4), 11 (9 Bip.), 43): crepante pede. Hor. Epod. 16, 48: nubes subito motu, Ov. F. 2, 501: catena, Sen. Ep. 9, 8: lapis, in statuā Memnonis, Plin. 36, 7, 11, 58 et saep.: digiti crepantis signa novit eunuchus, a snapping the fingers (as a sign of a command), Mart. 3, 82, 15; cf. concrepo, I.—Of the voice: vox generosa, quae non composita nec alienis auribus sed subito data crepuit,
because loud
, Sen. Clem. 2, 1, 1.—B. In partic., to break wind, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. prohibere, p. 206; Mart. 12, 77 and 78; cf. crepitus, B.—In a play upon words: Co. Fores hae fecerunt magnum flagitium modo. Ad. Quid id est flagitii? Co. Crepuerunt clare, Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 33.—C.Transf., to break with acrash: remi, Verg. A. 5, 206.—II.Act., to make something sound, make a noise with, cause to resound or rattle.A.Lit.: (Camenae) manibus faustos ter crepuere sonos, i. e.
clapped
, Prop. 3 (4), 10, 4; so, ter laetum sonum populus, Hor. C. 2, 17, 26: procul auxiliantia aera, Stat. Th. 6, 687: aureolos, to make to chink, i. e. to count, Mart. 5, 19, 14.—Esp. freq., B.Trop., to say something or talk noisily, to make much ado about, to boast of, prattle, prate, etc.: neque ego ad mensam publicas res clamo neque leges crepo, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 56: sulcos et vineta, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 84: quid veri, id. S. 2, 3, 33: immunda dicta, id. A. P. 247: post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem, id. C. 1, 18, 5; cf. with a rel.-clause: crepat, antiquum genus ut ... tolerarit aevum, Lucr. 2, 1170.