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-esce

suffix
/-ˈɛs/

Etymology

From Latin -ēscō (“to grow, become a certain way”, an inchoative suffix). Compare -ish (Etymology 2).

  1. borrowed from -ēscō — “to grow, become a certain way”

Definitions

  1. Used to form verbs from nouns, following the pattern of verbs derived from Latin verbs…

    Used to form verbs from nouns, following the pattern of verbs derived from Latin verbs ending in -esco

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -esce. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA