English Explanatory Dictionary

-escent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. beginning to be; becoming
  2. resembling

Word forms

-escent

Etymology

From Latin -ēscēns, present participle of -ēscō (“I become”). By surface analysis, -esce + -ent.

Related words

acaulescent accrescent acquiescent adolescent albescent arborescent canescent caulescent decrescent effervescent evanescent excrescent flavescent frondescent incalescent incandescent increscent juvenescent lactescent liquescent marcescent obsolescent postpubescent prepubescent pubescent putrescent quiescent ramollescent rubescent rufescent senescent spinescent suffrutescent tabescent tumescent virescent viridescent -esce -escence
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