-escent
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin -ēscēns, present participle of -ēscō (“I become”).
Suffix
[edit]-escent
- beginning to be; becoming
- resembling
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]terms ending in -escent otherwise formed
- acaulescent
- accrescent
- acquiescent
- adolescent
- albescent
- arborescent
- canescent
- caulescent
- decrescent
- effervescent
- evanescent
- excrescent
- flavescent
- frondescent
- incalescent
- incandescent
- increscent
- juvenescent
- lactescent
- liquescent
- marcescent
- obsolescent
- postpubescent
- prepubescent
- pubescent
- putrescent
- quiescent
- rubescent
- rufescent
- senescent
- spinescent
- suffrutescent
- tabescent
- tumescent
- virescent
- viridescent
otherwise related
- -esce (and its derivatives)
- -escence (and its derivatives)