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Where does “rigescent” come from?

rigescent (Latin) comes from Latin rigesco, from Latin -sco, from Proto-Italic -skō, from Proto-Indo-European -sḱéti — Forms durative or iterative imperfective verbs...

rigescent (Latin): third-person plural future active indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of...

Ancestry of “rigescent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinrigescoI stiffen, harden; I grow numb
2Latin-scoForms inchoative verbs from existing verbs,...
3Proto-Italic-skō—
4Proto-Indo-European-sḱétiForms durative or iterative imperfective verbs...
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