LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

crās

crās (not comparable)
Classical[ˈkraːs]Ecclesiastical[ˈkras]
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Meaning

  1. not comparabletomorrow
    Coordinate term: hodiē
    Crās Mārcus lūdōs vidēbit.Tomorrow, Marcus will see the games.

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

tomorrow
crās — in Seneca, ch. I

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

hodie qui est dies Non. Sept.; cras qui dies futurus est Non. Sept.
to-day the 5th of September; tomorrow September the 5th.

crās, adv. root ka-, ku-, to lighten, burn; Gr. καίω; cf. Sanscr. cvas, the same,
I. to-morrow, αὔριον (freq. and class.).
(a). With tempp. fut.: rus cras cum filio Cum primo luci ibo hinc, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 54: scies fortasse cras, summum perendie, Cic. Att. 12, 44, 3: cras donaberis haedo, Hor. C. 3, 13, 3: Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit, Ov. R. Am. 94 et saep.—With ellipsis of verb: negat Eros hodie: cras mane putat (sc. venturum esse), early to-morrow morning, Cic. Att. 10, 30, 2.—
(b). With temp. pres.: sat habeo, si cras fero, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 121; Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 46: cras est mihi Judicium, id. Eun. 2, 3, 46; Atta ap. Non. p. 468, 24:. cras nato Caesare festus dat veniam somnumque dies, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 9 al.—As the title of a writing of Varro: Cras credo, hodie nihil, of which there are some fragments ap. Non. p. 112, 9 al.—
(g). Subst.: cras istud quando venit? Mart. 5, 58, 2 sqq.; so, hesternum, Pers. 5, 68.—*
B. = in diem crastinum, on or for the morrow: cras te non vocavi, Mart. 2, 37, 11.—
II. Poet., in gen., the future, hereafter: quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere, Hor. C. 1, 9, 13: credula vitam Spes fovet et melius cras fore semper ait, Tib. 2, 6, 20; Ov. M. 15, 216 al.

Origins

From Proto-Italic *krās, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top”).

Ibero-Romance
  • Portuguesecrásfrom Old Galician-Portuguese cras
  • Spanishcrasfrom Old Spanish cras
  • Galiciancrásfrom Old Galician-Portuguese cras
Insular Romance
  • Sardiniancras
Italo-Romance
  • Italiancrai
  • Neapolitancraje
  • Siciliancrai

Quick answers

What does crās mean in Latin?
crās, a adverb, means “tomorrow”.
How do you pronounce crās?
In classical Latin, [ˈkraːs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈkras].