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This entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a fusion of two verb suffixes: inchoative -ēscō and denominative-causative -iō.

Pronunciation[edit]

Suffix[edit]

*-ēscō

  1. (Vulgar Latin, intransitive) {{n-g|Forms inchoative verbs from adjectives.
  2. (Vulgar Latin, transitive) {{n-g|Forms causative verbs from adjectives.

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Descendants[edit]

This suffix, nowadays a simple interfix, only survives on the peripheries of Romance, and in Ibero-Romance competed with and was eventually ousted by original -ēscō, with only a few defective verbs remaining as relics. Elsewhere in Romance, it was displaced by the later development *-īscō.