Where does “tumescence” come from?

tumescence (French) comes from Latin tumescēns, from Latin tumēscō, from Latin -sco, from Proto-Italic -skō, from Proto-Indo-European -sḱéti — Forms durative or iterative imperfective verbs...

tumescence (French): tumescence

Definitions

  1. tumescence

Ancestry of “tumescence”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintumescēnsswelling (beginning to swell)
2Latintumēscōto begin to swell, become distended or inflated, swell up
3Latin-scoForms inchoative verbs from existing verbs,...
4Proto-Italic-skō—
5Proto-Indo-European-sḱétiForms durative or iterative imperfective verbs...

Words derived from “tumescence”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -sḱéti →Every word from Latin -sco →Every word from Latin tumēscō →