descendent

descendent (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of descendant

descendent (plural descendents)

1. Misspelling of descendant.
   • 2002, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference, page 216:

     Traces of the answer, I submit, are to be discerned in all writings by the daughters of Sappho or the descendents of the tenth muse […]

The adjective, "descending from a biological ancestor", may be spelt either with an a or with an e in the final syllable (see descendant). However, the noun descendant, "one who is the progeny of someone", may be spelt only with an a.

Learned borrowing from Latin dēscendentem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [də.sənˈden]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [də.sənˈdent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [de.senˈdent]

descendent m or f (masculine and feminine plural descendents)

1. descending

   Antonym: ascendent

descendent m or f by sense (plural descendents)

1. descendant (one who is the progeny of a specified person)

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descendent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of descendre

dēscendent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēscendō

Borrowed from French descendant, from Latin dēscendēns.

• IPA^(key): /dɛsˈt͡sɛn.dɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛndɛnt
• Syllabification: des‧cen‧dent

descendent m pers

1. (law, archaic) descendant

   Synonyms: zstępny, potomek

   Antonyms: wstępny, ascendent, antenat, przodek

• descendent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• descendent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French descendant, Latin dēscendēns, dēscendēntem.

descendent m or n (feminine singular descendentă, masculine plural descendenți, feminine and neuter plural descendente)

1. descendent; descending; that which descends

descendent m (plural descendenți, feminine equivalent descendentă)

1. descendant

• descinde