descendencia

See also: descendència and descendência

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dēscendentia, from Latin dēscendēns. Compare Italian discendenza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /desθenˈdenθja/ [d̪es.θẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̟.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /desenˈdensja/ [d̪e.sẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -enθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: des‧cen‧den‧cia

Noun

descendencia f (plural descendencias)

1. descendancy
2. descendant

   Synonym: descendiente

Related terms

• descender

Further reading

• “descendencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025