Noun: esconce
Gender: m
Hyphenation: es‧con‧ce
| Singular m | esconce |
| Plural m | esconces |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like esconce
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
3. Proto-Italic *eks
4. Latin ex
5. Latin ex-
6. Old French es-
7. Latin cuneus
8. Old French coin
9. Old French -on
10. Old French escoinson
11. Old French *escoinzbor.
12. Spanish esconce
13. Borrowed from Old French *escoinz (“nook”), nominative case of Old French escoinçon, escoinson (whence modern French écoinçon), from Old French coin, coing (“nook, corner”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). See: French Nouns '
écoinçon', Latin Nouns '
cuneus'.
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