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efflorescent
English
Etymology
From French efflorescent
Adjective
efflorescent (comparative more efflorescent, superlative most efflorescent)
- Bursting into flower.
- Growing at a rapid rate; flourishing.
- Forming a white dust or efflorescence on the surface.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:efflorescent.
French
Adjective
efflorescent (feminine singular efflorescente, masculine plural efflorescents, feminine plural efflorescentes)
- efflorescent
Latin
Verb
effl?r?scent
- third-person plural future active indicative of effl?r?sc?
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effloresce
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)
- (intransitive, obsolete except figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.
- (intransitive, chemistry) Senses relating to chemistry.
- Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.
- 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.
- Of the surface of a material: to become covered with a powdery salt (as described in sense 3.2).
- Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.
Related terms
- efflorescence
- efflorescent
Translations
References
Further reading
- efflorescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Verb
effl?r?sce
- second-person singular present active imperative of effl?r?sc?
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