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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excrescentia. Cognate with Spanish excrecencia.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /is.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /es.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /es.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /is.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /es.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /es.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /iʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /eʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /eʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.kɾeˈsẽ.si.a/ , (faster pronunciation) /es.kɾeˈsẽ.sja/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/
- Rhymes: -ẽsiɐ, -ẽsjɐ
- Hyphenation: ex‧cres‧cên‧ci‧a
Noun
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)
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