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-escent
- a suffix of adjectives borrowed from Latin, where it expresses the beginning of an action or process; often corresponding to verbs ending in -esce and nouns ending in -escence: convalescent; recrudescent.
-escent
suffix forming adjectives
- beginning to be, do, show, etc
luminescent
convalescent
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Derived Forms
- -escence, suffix:forming_nouns
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Word History and Origins
Origin of -escent1
From Latin, stem of -ēscēns, present participle ending
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Word History and Origins
Origin of -escent1
via Old French from Latin -ēscent-, stem of present participial suffix of -ēscere, ending of inceptive verbs
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