English
excrescence
Excrescence comes from Latin excrescentia ‘abnormal growths’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcrescentia‘abnormal growths’
- Englishearliest quotation 1847excrescence
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcrescentia‘abnormal growths’
- Englishearliest quotation 1847excrescence
Earliest quotation: 1847, Currer Bell pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë, London: Smith: “I have again and again intimated that I desire…”
Every English word from Latin excrescentia
Today it means
noun Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin excrescentia / excrescence