albescente
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Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Participle
[edit]albēscente
Etymology 2
[edit]Ellipsis of albēscente caelō/diē (ablative absolute, literally “at the sky/day(light) starting to become white”). Attested in the Peregrinatio Etheriae.
Adverb
[edit]albēscente (not comparable)
- (Late Latin, hapax) at the break of day
References
[edit]- “albēsco” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Portuguese
[edit]Adjective
[edit]albescente m or f (plural albescentes)
- albescent (becoming white)