excrescence

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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).

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: израстък (izrastǎk) — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Catalan: excrescència — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Dutch: uitwas — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Dutch: exces — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Finnish: kasvannainen — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Finnish: kohouma — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• French: excès — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• French: excroissance — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Galician: excrecencia — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Hungarian: kinövés — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Italian: escrescenza — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Latin: tūber — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Māori: pukuwhenewhene — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Persian: آگنه (āgne) — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Polish: narośl — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Portuguese: excrescência — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Russian: отро́сток (otróstok) — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Russian: нарост (narost) — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Spanish: excrecencia — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Swedish: utväxt — something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
• Bulgarian: епентеза (epenteza) — epenthesis of a consonant
• Hungarian: inetimologikus mássalhangzó (betoldás) — epenthesis of a consonant
• Polish: epenteza samogłosek — epenthesis of a consonant