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evanescent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French évanescent (“evanescent”), from Latin ?v?n?sc?ns (“disappearing, vanishing”), present participle of ?v?n?sc? (“to disappear, vanish; to die out, fade away; to lapse”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away, out’)) + v?n?sc? (“to vanish”) (from v?nus (“empty, vacant, void”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“to abandon, leave”)) + -?sc? (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to become’)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??n?s(?)nt/, /i?v?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??v??n?s?nt/
- Rhymes: -?s?nt
- Hyphenation: eva?nes?cent
Adjective
evanescent (comparative more evanescent, superlative most evanescent)
- Disappearing, vanishing.
- Synonym: nonevanescent
- (electromagnetism) Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.
- (mathematics) Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
- Barely there; almost imperceptible.
- Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
- Synonyms: nonevanescent; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral
- (botany) Of plant parts: shed after a period.
Derived terms
- evanescence
- evanescently
- nonevanescent
Related terms
- evanesce
Translations
References
Further reading
- evanescent field on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- evanescent (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Verb
?v?n?scent
- third-person plural future active indicative of ?v?n?sc?
Romanian
Etymology
From French évanescent
Adjective
evanescent m or n (feminine singular evanescent?, masculine plural evanescen?i, feminine and neuter plural evanescente)
- evanescent
Declension
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evan
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
- e?an
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ebn, from Proto-Germanic *ebnaz, whence also Old English efen, Old Frisian even, ivin, Old High German eban, Old Norse jafn, Gothic ???????????????? (ibns). See also efni.
Adjective
evan (comparative efnoro, superlative efnost)
- equal
- even
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: even
- Low German: effen, even
- ? Danish: effen
- ? Swedish: även
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