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descendent (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of descendant.

• descendental

descendent

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. Compare also dependent and dependant.

Learned borrowing from Latin dēscendentem.

• IPA(key): (Central) [də.sənˈden]
• IPA(key): (Balearic) [də.sənˈdent]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [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)

• descendir

descendent

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

dēscendent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēscendō

Borrowed from French descendant.

• IPA(key): /dɛsˈt͡sɛn.dɛnt/
• 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[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “descendent”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French descendant, Latin dēscendēns, dēscendēntem.

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

1. descendent; descending; that which descends

descendent m (plural descendenți, feminine equivalent descendentă)

1. descendant

• descinde