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Webster 1913 Edition
-escent
-es′cent
.[From the ending
-escens
, -entis
, of the p. pr. of inchoative verbs in Latin.] A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be;
as, adol
escent
, effervescent
, etc.Definition 2024
-escent
-escent
English
Suffix
-escent
- beginning to be; becoming
- resembling
Derived terms
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Related terms
terms ending in -escent otherwise formed