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-esce
- a suffix appearing in verbs borrowed from Latin, where it had an inchoative meaning:
convalesce; putresce.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of -esce1
From the Latin suffix -ēscere
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Example Sentences
Dove entra il vino, esce la vergogna—When 35 wine enters modesty goes.
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Come Titan del seno dell' aurora Esce, così con le mie pecorelle I monti cerco sema far dimora.
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Da questa prouincia esce sopra il mare vn promontorio detto Rubro molto alto, & apparente chi nauiga.
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Lugano is the Italian lake most lovingly encircled by mountain arms, and every height about it may be scaled with esce.
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