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Word Unit: -esce, -escent, -escence (Latin: a suffix; beginning to be, becoming; to be somewhat).

Word Unit: eschato-, eschat- + (Greek: last, furthest, remotest, outermost).

Word Unit: esculent-, -esculent (Latin: food; good to eat, eatable, edible).

Related "eat, eating" word units: brycho-; esophago-; glutto-; phago-; vor-.

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "food, nutrition, nourishment": alimento-; broma-; carno-; cibo-; sitio-; tropho-; Eating Crawling Snacks; Eating: Carnivorous-Plant "Pets"; Eating: Folivory or Leaf Eaters; Eating: Omnivorous.

Word Unit: -ese + (Latin: suffix from -ensis, of, belonging to, from [a place]; originating in [a city or country]).

Word Unit: -esis (Latin: process of action).

Word Unit: eso-, es-, eis- (Greek: inward, into; within).

Word Unit: esophag-, esophago- + (Greek: gullet, throat [passage from the mouth to the stomach], that which carries food; the path along which food travels from the mouth to the stomach).

Related "eat, eating" word units: brycho-; esculent-; glutto-; phago-; vor-.

Cross references related to "neck, throat" word families: cervic-; coll-; guttur-; laryng-; nuch-; trachel-.

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "food, nutrition, nourishment": alimento-; broma-; carno-; cibo-; esculent-; sitio-; tropho-; Eating Crawling Snacks; Eating: Carnivorous-Plant "Pets"; Eating: Folivory or Leaf Eaters; Eating: Omnivorous.

Word Unit: -esque (from Proto-Germanic -iskaz, Vulgar Latin -iscus, Italian -esco, and then French -esque: a suffix forming adjuectives and indicating "resemblance, style, manner, or distinctive character, etc., of").

Word Unit: -ess (Greek -issa > Late Latin -issa > Old French -esse > Middle English -esse: a suffix that forms nouns meaning a female +++, as in lioness, tigress, heiress, hostess, and sculptress).

Word Unit: esse, sent-, terest- (Latin: to be).

Word Unit: Esthesia: History of Anesthesia, Part 1 of 3 (facts about anesthesia's (anaesthesia's) past).

Word Unit: Esthesia: History of Anesthesia, Part 2 of 3 (the mandragora, or mandrake, plant was used as an anesthesia).

Word Unit: Esthesia: History of Anesthesia, Part 3 of 3 (more history of anesthesia or anaesthesia).

Word Unit: Esthesia: Index of Esthesia-Related Units (historical background of anesthesia).

Word Unit: estim- (Latin: to value; to appraise; to assess).

Word Unit: estiv-, aestiv- (Latin: pertaining to summer; heat).

Word Unit: -et (French: a suffix; small).

Word Unit: eta (Greek: the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet).

Word Unit: ethero-, ether-, aethero-, aether-, aither- (Greek > Latin: burn, shine, to kindle; light up; the heavens; the upper air, the sky).

Etymologically related "light, shine, glow" word families: fulg-; luco-; lumen-, lum-; luna, luni-; lustr-; phengo-; pheno-; phospho-; photo-; scinti-, scintill-; splendo-.

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes": ars-, ard-; cand-, cend-; caust-, caut-; crema-; ciner-; flagr-; flam-; focus, foci-; fulg-; gehenna-; ign-; phleg-; phlog-; pyreto-, -pyrexia; pyr-; spod- (ashes; waste); volcan-.

Word Unit: ethm-, ethmo- + (Greek: strainer, sieve).

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