descendant
Meaning
-
- present participle of descendre
- gerund of descendre
Concepts
descendant
offspring
successor
scion
young
descending
downward
descendent
progeny
downstream
falling
descendants
posterity
daughter nucleus
child
descent
alight
cascading
decreasing
dropping
plummeting
tumbling
issue
heir
decay product
branchlet
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēscendentem, the present participle of dēscendere, itself from dē + scandere (“climb, ascend”).
New
descendre
- to go down
- to descend
- to put down; disparage
- (slang) to kill (someone)
- to stay (in a hotel or other temporary lodging)
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