Hypertext Webster Gateway: "escent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
-escent \-es"cent\ [From the ending -escens, -entis, of the p.
pr. of inchoative verbs in Latin.]
A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as,
adolescent, effervescent, etc.
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