effervesce

English

Etymology

From Latin effervescere (“to boil up”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛf.əɹˈvɛs/

Verb

effervesce (third-person singular simple present effervesces, present participle effervescing, simple past and past participle effervesced)

1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz.
   • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

     After some remonstrances, she takes up a champagne bottle, but is frightened by the sudden explosion of the cork, and drops it upon the floor. There the untasted liquor effervesces.

2. (intransitive, of a gas) To escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles.
3. (intransitive, figurative, of a person) To show high spirits.

Related terms

• effervescence
• effervescent

Translations

to emit small bubbles

• Bulgarian: кипя (bg) (kipja), пеня се (penja se)
• Finnish: kuohua (fi), poreilla (fi)
• Greek: αφρίζω (el) (afrízo)
• Hungarian: buborékol (hu)
• Italian: spumeggiare
• Ottoman Turkish: كوپورمك (köpürmek)
• Russian: пузыри́ться (ru) n (puzyrítʹsja)

to show high spirits

• Bulgarian: кипвам (bg) (kipvam)
• Finnish: olla innoissaan, vaahdota (fi)

Latin

Verb

effervēsce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of effervēscō