tumescent

English

Etymology

From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tuˈmɛsənt/, /tjuˈmɛsənt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

tumescent (comparative more tumescent, superlative most tumescent)

1. Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
2. Inflated or overblown.
   • 1982, Arlene Croce, Going to the Dance, page 395:

     I think that in Gloria MacMillan uses this tumescent language for a comparatively modest purpose — to show how it was between men and women in the war — and the language inflates and perverts his meaning unconscionably.

Synonyms

• tumid
• turgescent
• turgid

Related terms

• contumely
• tumescent
• tumor
• tumult

 

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tewh₂-‎ (0 c, 47 e)

Translations

swollen or distended with fluid

• Maori: uruumu
• Portuguese: tumescente, intumescente

inflated or overblown

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• French: ^{(please verify)} tumescent (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} tumescente (fr) f

French

Adjective

tumescent (feminine tumescente, masculine plural tumescents, feminine plural tumescentes)

1. tumescent

Further reading

• “tumescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

tumēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of tumēscō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tumescent.

Adjective

tumescent m or n (feminine singular tumescentă, masculine plural tumescenți, feminine and neuter plural tumescente)

1. tumescent

Declension

Declension of tumescent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	tumescent		tumescentă	tumescenți	tumescente
	definite	tumescentul		tumescenta	tumescenții	tumescentele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	tumescent		tumescente	tumescenți	tumescente
	definite	tumescentului		tumescentei	tumescenților	tumescentelor