different between effloresce vs effloresced

English

Etymology

From Latin effl?r?scere, present active infinitive of effl?r?sc? (“to bloom, blossom; to flourish”) + -ere (suffix forming infinitives). Effl?r?sc? is derived from ef- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + fl?r?sc? (“to blossom, flower; to begin to flourish or prosper”) (from fl?re? (“to bloom, blossom, flower; to flourish, prosper”) (from fl?s (“blossom, flower”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“bloom, flower”)) + -sc? (suffix forming verbs having the sense of beginning something)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??fl????s/, /-fl?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??fl????s/
• Hyphenation: ef?flor?esce

Verb

effloresce (third-person singular simple present effloresces, present participle efflorescing, simple past and past participle effloresced)

1. (intransitive, obsolete except figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.
3. (intransitive, chemistry) Senses relating to chemistry.
   1. Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.
   2. Of a salt: to seep through some material (bricks, concrete, earth, rock, etc.) in a dissolved state, and then crystallize on a surface in a powdery form.
   3. Of the surface of a material: to become covered with a powdery salt (as described in sense 3.2).

Related terms

• efflorescence
• efflorescent

Translations

References

Further reading

• efflorescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

effl?r?sce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of effl?r?sc?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??fl????st/

Verb

effloresced

1. simple past tense and past participle of effloresce