descendant
English
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Etymology
From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, from dē + scandere (“to climb, ascend”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
descendant (not comparable)
- descending from a biological ancestor.
- proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
Usage notes
The adjective may be spelled either with ant or ent as the final syllable (see descendent). The noun may be spelled only with ant.
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Noun
descendant (plural descendants)
- (literally) One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- 1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ē-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp (editors), Comparative-Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 479:
- The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. nȍsī, dȍnosī.
- 1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ē-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp (editors), Comparative-Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 479:
Usage notes
The adjective may be spelled either with ant or ent as the final syllable (see descendent). The noun may be spelled only with ant.
Synonyms
- (offspring): afterbear, offspring, scion, and see Thesaurus:child & relative
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See also
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēscendēns, dēscendēntem, the present participle of descendere, itself from dē + scandere (“climb, ascend”).
Pronunciation
Verb
descendant
Noun
descendant m (plural descendants, feminine descendante)
- A descendant; one who is the progeny of someone at any distance of time; e.g. a child; a grandchild, etc.
Antonyms
Adjective
descendant (feminine descendante, masculine plural descendants, feminine plural descendantes)
- (which is) descending.
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Further reading
- “descendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) dēscendant
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