English
flavescence
Flavescence comes from Latin flavescens ‘yellowing’, and goes back to flāvus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāvus‘yellow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāvēscō‘to become yellow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflavescens‘yellowing’present active participle of flāvēscō
- Englishtodayflavescence
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāvus‘yellow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāvēscō‘to become yellow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflavescens‘yellowing’present active participle of flāvēscō
- Englishtodayflavescence
Equivalent to flāvus + -escence
Linked words
through Latin flāvus ‘yellow’
Today it means
noun A phytoplasma disease of grapevines.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flāvus / flavescence