luminescent
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
lumin
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
luminescent
exhibiting, or capable of exhibiting luminescence (cold light; any giving off of light caused by the absorption of radiant or corpuscular energy and not by incandescence)
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Dissection of luminescent
luminescent = lumin (light) + -escent (growing; becoming);
luminescent = giving off cold light
Now Repeat my Dissection
luminescent = giving off cold light
Important roots for this word:
-escent
lumin
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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