| -escent suff. 1. Beginning to be; becoming: juvenescent. 2. Characterized by; resembling: opalescent. [French, from Old French, from Latin -  scns, -scent-, present participle suff. of inchoative verbs in -scere.] |
-escent
suffix forming adjectives
beginning to be, do, show, etc. convalescent luminescent
[via Old French from Latin -ēscent-, stem of present participial suffix of -ēscere, ending of inceptive verbs]
-escence suffix forming nouns
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