-escent

beginning to be; becoming

Suffix

  1. beginning to be; becoming
  2. resembling

Origin

From Latin -ēscēns, present participle of -ēscō (“I become”). By surface analysis, -esce + -ent.

Related

acaulescent accrescent acquiescent adolescent albescent arborescent canescent caulescent decrescent effervescent evanescent excrescent flavescent frondescent incalescent incandescent increscent juvenescent lactescent liquescent marcescent obsolescent postpubescent prepubescent