单词 | -escent |
释义 | -escentsuffix Forming adjectives, representing Latin -ēscentem, the ending of present participles of verbs in -ēscĕre, chiefly inceptives, < verbs of state in -ēre. Primarily occurring in words < Latin participles, as deliquescent, effervescent, obsolescent, putrescent, where the general sense is ‘beginning to assume a certain state’. Hence in recent times the suffix has been used (both in English and in other European languages) to form adjectives upon nouns, as in alkalescent (? after acescent), and in several words referring to play of light or colour, as fluorescent, iridescent, opalescent, phosphorescent. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < suffix |
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