excrescence

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

  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).

Đối diện của
svarabhakti, anaptyxis
Phát âm là (IPA)
/ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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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