English → Latin
“excrescence” in Latin
excernōto sift out, separate; to keep apart, keep away; to accumulate, proliferategibberhumpbacked, hunchbackedgibbushumped, hunched, gibbouspō̆lypusoctopus; cuttlefish; nasal tumor
The English word excrescence itself goes back to Latin crēscō, through excrescentia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
excrescence
quod excrescit or excrevit: caro excrescens (on the body): ecphyma: sarcoma (ἔκφυμαa, σάρκωμα, on the bodies of animals): gibber (hump, lump, etc.; gibba only Suet., Dom., 23; and gibbus, Juv., 6, 109; 10, 294 and 303): excrescences, carnes excrescentes; excrescentia, -ium, plur.: a fleshy excrescence on the nose, polypus: that has such an excrescence, polyposus (Vid: Martisalis, 12, 37, 2): he had a fleshy excrescence on his side, caro excreverat in latere ejus (Suet.): arsenic destroys every excrescence, arsenicum tollit quicquid excrescit.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for excrescence?
- The usual Latin words for “excrescence” are excernō, gibber, gibbus; also pō̆lypus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.