"excrescence" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/, /ɪkˈskɹɛsəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-excrescence.wav [UK], En-us-excrescence.oga [US] Forms: excrescences [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excrēscere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + crēscere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{der|en|la|excrescentia||abnormal growths}} Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), {{m|la|excrescentem}} excrescentem, {{m|la|excrescere|excrēscere}} excrēscere, {{m|la|ex-||out}} ex- (“out”), {{m|en|ex-}} ex-, {{m|la|crescere|crēscere|to grow}} crēscere (“to grow”), {{m|la|crescent}} crescent, {{m|en|excrescency}} excrescency Head templates: {{en-noun}} excrescence (plural excrescences)
  1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else. Translations (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else): израстък (izrastǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), uitwas (Dutch), exces (Dutch), kasvannainen (Finnish), kohouma (Finnish), excès [masculine] (French), excroissance [feminine] (French), excrecencia [feminine] (Galician), kinövés (Hungarian), tūber [neuter] (Latin), pukuwhenewhene (english: on the trunk of a tree) (Maori), narośl [feminine] (Polish), excrescência [feminine] (Portuguese), отро́сток (otróstok) [masculine] (Russian), нарост (narost) [masculine] (Russian), utväxt [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-excrescence-en-noun-mLmlDDLO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -escence Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 24 26 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 51 22 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -escence: 56 21 24 Disambiguation of 'something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else': 96 2 2
  2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
    Sense id: en-excrescence-en-noun-VxsnqpQd
  3. (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2). Categories (topical): Phonetics Synonyms: vyanjanabhakti Hyponyms (phonetic): linking consonant Related terms (phonetic): intervocalic Translations (epenthesis of a consonant): inetimologikus mássalhangzó (betoldás) (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-excrescence-en-noun-en:phonetics Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences Disambiguation of 'phonetic': 10 6 84 Disambiguation of 'phonetic': 10 6 84 Disambiguation of 'epenthesis of a consonant': 9 5 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: excrescency, excrescent

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    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excrescência"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otróstok",
      "sense": "something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "отро́сток"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "narost",
      "sense": "something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "нарост"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "utväxt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "epenthesis of a consonant",
      "word": "inetimologikus mássalhangzó (betoldás)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Excrescence"
  ],
  "word": "excrescence"
}

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