excrescência
Galician
Noun
excrescência f (plural excrescências, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of excrecencia
Further reading
- “excrescência” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excrescentia. Cognate with Spanish excrecencia.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ [is.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /is.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /es.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ [es.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /es.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ [iʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /iʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /eʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.si.ɐ/ [eʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /eʃ.kɾeˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.kɾeˈsẽ.si.a/ [es.kɾeˈsẽ.sɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /es.kɾeˈsẽ.sja/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/, (careful pronunciation) /ɐjʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /ɐjʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/, (careful pronunciation) /ejʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /ejʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/, (careful pronunciation) /ejʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /ejʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /(i)ʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/, (careful pronunciation) /eʃ.kɾɨʃˈsẽ.sjɐ/, /eʃ.kɾɨˈʃẽ.sjɐ/
- Rhymes: -ẽsiɐ, (faster pronunciation) -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)
Further reading
- “excrescência”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “excrescência”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025