The story
- Latin · borrowed from-ēscō“to grow, become a certain way”
- English today-esce
From Latin -ēscō (“to grow, become a certain way”, an inchoative suffix). Compare -ish (Etymology 2).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
-esce
Today it means: Used to form verbs from nouns, following the pattern of verbs derived from Latin verbs ending in -esco Full definition →
Latin -ēscō