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1. -escent
a suffix of adjectives borrowed from Latin, where it had an inchoative force (convalescent; recrudescent); also used with the sense “giving off light" of the kind or in the manner specified (
fluorescent; iridescent; ).
Etymology: (< L, s. of -ēscēns, prp. ending (see -esce , -ent ); in sense “giving off light,” prob. extracted from incandescent)
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1. -escent
a suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc
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