-esce

a suffix appearing in verbs borrowed from Latin, where it had an inchoative meaning: convalesce; putresce.

Origin of -esce

From the Latin suffix -ēscere

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Dove entra il vino, esce la vergogna—When 35 wine enters modesty goes.
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Come Titan del seno dell' aurora Esce, così con le mie pecorelle I monti cerco sema far dimora.
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Da questa prouincia esce sopra il mare vn promontorio detto Rubro molto alto, & apparente chi nauiga.
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