excrescência
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin excrescentia. Cognate with Spanish excrecencia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ [is.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /is.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /es.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ [es.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /es.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ [iʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /iʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /eʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ [eʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /eʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.kɾeˈsẽ.si.a/ [es.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /es.kɾeˈsẽ.sja/
Noun
[edit]excrescência f (plural excrescências)
- excrescence (greater or lesser protrusion above a surface)
- (medicine) excrescence (any tumor protruding from the skin or mucous membrane)
- (figuratively) superfluity (useless thing)
Further reading
[edit]- “excrescência”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “excrescência”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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