Lewis Short
(verb) : prō-crĕo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To bring forth, beget, generate, procreate, produce (class.).
* 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.
* 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.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary