English
supercrescent
Supercrescent comes from Latin supercrescens.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsupercrescens
- Englishearliest quotation 1732supercrescent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsupercrescens
- Englishearliest quotation 1732supercrescent
Earliest quotation: 1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or: “consume or diminish the supercrescent or overgrown Flesh”.
Every English word from Latin supercrescens
Today it means
adj Growing on some other growing thing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin supercrescens / supercrescent