Where does “tumescēns” come from?

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

tumescēns (Latin): swelling (beginning to swell)

Definitions

  1. swelling (beginning to swell)

Ancestry of “tumescēns”, step by step

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

Words derived from “tumescēns”

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