excrescence
Senso (Inglese)
- Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
- A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
- The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).
Concetti
Opposto di
svarabhakti, anaptyxis
sinonimi
Traduzioni
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/
Etimologia (Inglese)
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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