excrescence

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
  2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
  3. The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).

Konzepte

Auswuchs

Ausgeburt

Gegenteil von
svarabhakti, anaptyxis
Übersetzungen

prominència

εξόγκωμα

απόφυση

παραφυής

υποσάρκωμα

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excrēscere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + crēscere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).

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