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-esc¹

  • /-esk/

Where it comes from

Inherited from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin -iscus for older words and the common Romanian surname ending -escu, as well as the place name suffix -ești formed from the plural. Based on French -esque for many newer words or neologisms, which appear after the mid-19th century.

suffix -ească · -ești · -ește · -esc

  1. masculine, morpheme -esque, -ish (used with a root to form adjectives)

-esc²

  • /-esk/

Where it comes from

A form of the infix -esc-, from Latin -ēscō (and -ēscunt in the case of the third-person plural). Cognates include Aromanian -escu, Italian -isco, -iscono, Spanish -ezco, -ecen, Catalan -eixo, -eixen.

suffix -ăsc

  1. morpheme Used with a stem to form the first-person singular and third-person plural present of most regular -i (fourth conjugation) verbs. E.g. unesc, tușesc, feresc, pățesc, urăsc.

In English

  • -ish appended to words
  • -ese forming adjectives or nouns describing things or people characteristic of a part
  • -esque in the style of

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MLA

"-esc." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ro/-esc. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

-esc. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ro/-esc

Chicago

"-esc." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/-esc.

BibTeX
@misc{esc_2026,
  title = {-esc},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/-esc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}