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Romanian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From -esc. Compare Aromanian -eashti. Cf. also Albanian -ishte.
Suffix
-ește
- adverbial form of -esc
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Etymology 2
A form of the infix -esc-, from Latin -ēscō, in this case -ēscit. Cognates include Aromanian -eashti, Italian -isce, Spanish -ece.
Alternative forms
Suffix
-ește
- Used with a stem to form the third-person singular present of most regular -i (fourth conjugation) verbs. E.g. unește, tușește, ferește, pățește, urăște.
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