-esco

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin -iscus.[1] Cognates: see Proto-Germanic *-iskaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.sko/
• Rhymes: -esko
• Hyphenation: -é‧sco

-esco

1. forms adjectives (sometimes used as nouns) that indicate relationship, membership, quality

   ‎Dante (“the poet Dante Alighieri”) + ‎-esco → ‎dantesco (“Dantesque”)

• French: -esque
  • English: -esque
  • German: -esk

• Cose, OCSE, cose, seco, secò

From -eō +‎ -scō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeːs.koː/, [ˈeːs̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈes.ko/, [ˈɛsko]

-ēscō (present infinitive -ēscere, perfect active -ī, supine -um); third conjugation

1. Forms verbs from adjectives meaning "become (adjective)".

Many verbs ending in -ēscō are inchoatives in -scō formed from statives in -eō. However, some verbs exist that are derived directly from the adjective, with no "intermediate" stative verb existing, e.g.:

• amārus > amārēscō (but no *amāreō)
• celeber > celebrēscō (but no *celebreō)

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-esco (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -esca, masculine plural -escos, feminine plural -escas)

1. Forms adjectives that signify comparison, relation or resemblance to the word stem (-like, -esque)

   ‎animal (“animal”) + ‎-esco → ‎animalesco (“animalesque, animal-like”)

   ‎livro (“book”) + ‎-esco → ‎livresco (“related to books”)

-esco (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -esca, masculine plural -escos, feminine plural -escas)

1. Alternative form of -sco; forms adjectives that signify "relation" to the word stem; sometimes pejorative

   ‎libro (“book”) + ‎-esco → ‎libresco (“related to books”)

-esco m (noun-forming suffix, plural -escos)

1. Alternative form of -sco; forms augmentative nouns
2. Alternative form of -sco; forms collective nouns

• “-esco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014