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efflorescence

Meaningflowering out

Common meaning: powdery crystalline deposit on a surface

Journey through time

  1. Latinefflorescentiasource
  2. Frenchefflorescence‘flowering’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsflowering → powdery crystalline deposit on a surfaceefflorescence‘powdery crystalline deposit on a surface’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin efflorescentia ‘flowering out’.

Roots

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