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excrescência

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Galician

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Noun

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excrescência f (plural excrescências, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of excrecencia

Further reading

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  • “excrescência”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin excrescentia. Cognate with Spanish excrecencia.

Pronunciation

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): (careful) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/, (careful) /ɐjʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /ɐjʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): (careful) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/, (careful) /ejʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /ejʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/
    • (Central Portugal) IPA(key): (careful) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/, (careful) /ejʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /ejʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): (careful) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/, (careful) /eʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /eʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/

  • Rhymes: -ẽsiɐ, (faster pronunciation) -ẽsjɐ
  • Hyphenation: ex‧cres‧cên‧ci‧a

Noun

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excrescência f (plural excrescências)

  1. excrescence (greater or lesser protrusion above a surface)
  2. (medicine) excrescence (any tumor protruding from the skin or mucous membrane)
  3. (figuratively) superfluity (useless thing)

Further reading

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