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discendere

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin dēscendere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /diʃˈʃen.de.re/, /diʃˈʃɛn.de.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -endere, -ɛndere
  • Hyphenation: di‧scén‧de‧re, di‧scèn‧de‧re
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Verb

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discéndere or discèndere (first-person singular present discéndo or discèndo, first-person singular past historic discési, past participle discéso, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)

  1. (intransitive) to go down, to descend, to get down, to slope down [auxiliary essere]
    Synonyms: scendere, calare
  2. (intransitive, from a vehicle) to get off, to get out [auxiliary essere]
    Synonym: scendere
  3. (intransitive) to fall, to drop, to decrease [auxiliary essere]
    Synonyms: scendere, calare, abbassarsi
  4. (intransitive, figurative) to descend, to originate [with da ‘from’] [auxiliary essere]
  5. (transitive) to descend (stairs, etc.)

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ discendo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)