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Contents

  • 1 English
    • 1.1 Etymology
    • 1.2 Pronunciation
    • 1.3 Adjective
      • 1.3.1 Usage notes
      • 1.3.2 Alternative forms
      • 1.3.3 Antonyms
      • 1.3.4 Related terms
      • 1.3.5 Translations
    • 1.4 Noun
      • 1.4.1 Usage notes
      • 1.4.2 Synonyms
      • 1.4.3 Antonyms
      • 1.4.4 Derived terms
      • 1.4.5 Translations
    • 1.5 See also
  • 2 French
    • 2.1 Etymology
    • 2.2 Pronunciation
    • 2.3 Participle
    • 2.4 Noun
      • 2.4.1 Antonyms
    • 2.5 Adjective
      • 2.5.1 Derived terms
    • 2.6 Related terms
    • 2.7 Further reading
  • 3 Latin
    • 3.1 Verb

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Descendant
Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, from dē + scandere (“to climb, ascend”).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /dɪˈsɛndənt/
    • Audio (Southern California); [dɪˈsɛndɛnt]:(file)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /dɪˈsendənt/
  • Hyphenation: des‧cen‧dant

Adjective

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descendant (not comparable)

  1. Descending; going down.
    The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.
    • 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 14:
      Eagle descendant, or descending. See DESCENDANT, and Pl. 22, fig. 6. Eagle descendant, displayed. See Pl. 22, fig. 7. Eagle displayed, recursant. See DISPLAYED RECURSANT, and Pl. 22, […]
    • 1984, Charles A. Ravenstein, Air Force combat wings: lineage and honors histories 1947-1977, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 259:
      Azure, surmounting a cloud argent, an American eagle descendant, wings endorsed proper, between his beak four lightning streaks, […]
  2. Descending from a biological ancestor.
    Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendant manner.
  3. Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.

Usage notes

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See descendent § Usage notes.

Alternative forms

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  • descendent

Antonyms

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  • ascendant, ascendent, ascending
  • (antonym(s) of “heraldry”): montant

Related terms

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  • descendancy

Translations

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descending — see descending
descending from (an ancestor)
  • Catalan: descendent (ca)
  • Galician: descendente m or f
  • Northwestern Ojibwa: ondoode
  • Spanish: postremo m, descendiente (es) m

Noun

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descendant (plural descendants)

  1. One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
    Antonyms: ancestor, progenitor; forefather, foremother
    Hypernym: successor
    Meronyms: issue, line, progeny; family; clan
    The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
  2. (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
    This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
  3. (biology) A later evolutionary type.
    Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
  4. (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
    English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
  5. (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
    Synonyms: reflex, derivative
    Antonym: etymon
    Coordinate term: cognate
    • 1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ē-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi, 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.
  6. (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.

Usage notes

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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

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  • (offspring): afterbear, offspring, scion, and see Thesaurus:child & relative

Antonyms

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  • ascendant
  • ancestor
  • forebear

Derived terms

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  • Afrodescendant
  • descendantless
  • direct descendant
  • indirect descendant
  • nondescendant
 

Translations

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one who is the progeny of someone
  • Afrikaans: afstammeling
  • Albanian: pasardhës (sq) n
  • Arabic: سَلِيل m (salīl)
  • Armenian: հետնորդ (hy) (hetnord), ժառանգ (hy) (žaṙang), սերունդ (hy) (serund)
  • Belarusian: нашча́дак m (naščádak), нашча́дніца f (naščádnica), пато́мак m (patómak)
  • Bengali: আওলাদ (bn) (aōlad), ফরজন্দ (bn) (phorjondo)
  • Bulgarian: пото́мък (bg) m (potómǎk)
  • Catalan: descendent (ca) m
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 後裔/后裔 (hau6 jeoi6), 子孫/子孙 (zi2 syun1), 後嗣/后嗣 (hau6 zi6), 兒孫/儿孙 (ji4 syun1), 後代/后代 (hau6 doi6)
    Hokkien: 後裔/后裔 (hō͘-è), 囝孫/囝孙 (zh-min-nan) (kiáⁿ-sun), 後嗣/后嗣 (zh-min-nan) (hiō-sū, hiō-sû, hō͘-sû, āu-sû), 裔孫/裔孙 (è-sun), 後代/后代 (zh-min-nan) (āu-tāi, hiō-tāi)
    Mandarin: 後裔/后裔 (zh) (hòuyì), 子孫/子孙 (zh) (zǐsūn), 後嗣/后嗣 (zh) (hòusì), 兒孫/儿孙 (zh) (érsūn), 後代/后代 (zh) (hòudài)
  • Czech: potomek (cs) m, potomkyně f
  • Danish: efterkommer c, afkom (da) n
  • Dutch: afstammeling (nl) m, nakomeling (nl) m, nazaat (nl) m, telg (nl) m
  • Esperanto: posteulo (eo), ido (eo)
  • Estonian: järglane
  • Ewe: dzidzimevi n
  • Finnish: jälkeläinen (fi)
  • French: descendant (fr) m, descendante (fr) f
  • German: Nachkomme (de) m, Nachkommin (de) f, Deszendent m, Deszendentin f, Spross (de) m, Sproß (de) m (old spelling), Sprössling (de) m, Abkomme (de) m, Abkommin f, Abkömmling (de) m, Nachfahr m, Nachfahre (de) m, Nachfahrin (de) f, Nachkömmling m, Nachwuchs (de) m
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌰 m (afara)
  • Greek: απόγονος (el) m (apógonos)
    Ancient: ἐπίγονος m (epígonos)
  • Hausa: zuriya (ha)
  • Hebrew: צֶאֱצָא (he) m (tse'etsa)
  • Hindi: वंशज (hi) m (vañśaj)
  • Hungarian: leszármazott (hu)
  • Icelandic: afkomandi m, niðji (is) m
  • Ido: decendanto (io)
  • Indonesian: keturunan (id)
  • Irish: sliochtach m
  • Italian: discendente (it) m
  • Japanese: 子孫 (ja) (しそん, shison), 子種 (こだね, kodane), 後裔 (ja) (こうえい, kōei)
  • Korean: 자손(子孫) (ko) (jason), 후예(後裔) (ko) (huye)
  • Kyrgyz: тукум (ky) (tukum)
  • Latin: prognatus m, successio (la) f
  • Lycian: 𐊏𐊁𐊇𐊁 (newe)
  • Macedonian: потомок m (potomok)
  • Malay: keturunan (ms)
  • Manchu: ᠠᠮᠠᡤᠠ
    ᡝᠨᡝᠨ
    (amaga enen)
  • Maori: mokopuna, whakahekenga, mangainga, tākerekere (direct descendant)
  • Norman: d'scendant m, d'scendante f
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: etterkommer (no) m
    Nynorsk: etterkomar m, etterkommar m
  • Ottoman Turkish: نسل (nesl)
  • Persian: فروشونده (forušavande)
  • Polish: potomek (pl) m, potomkini f, zstępny (pl), descendent (pl) m
  • Portuguese: descendente (pt) m or f
  • Romanian: descendent (ro) m, descendentă (ro) f, urmaș (ro) m, urmașă (ro) f
  • Russian: пото́мок (ru) m (potómok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: по̀томак m
    Roman: pòtomak (sh) m
  • Slovak: potomok m, potomkyňa f
  • Slovene: potomec (sl) m
  • Spanish: descendiente (es) m
  • Swahili: mzao class 1/2
  • Swedish: ättling (sv) c, avkomma (sv) c, avkomling (sv) c
  • Tagalog: inanak
  • Tarifit: taṛwa f
  • Telugu: వారసుడు (te) (vārasuḍu), ఆనువంశీకుడు m (ānuvaṁśīkuḍu)
  • Thai: ผู้สืบสันดาน (th) (pûu-sʉ̀ʉp-sǎn-daan)
  • Turkish: döl (tr), zürriyet (tr)
  • Tày: bổi
  • Ukrainian: наща́док m (naščádok), пото́мок (uk) m (potómok)
  • Vietnamese: hậu bối
  • Welsh: disgynnydd (cy) m, disgynnyddion m pl
  • Yiddish: אָפּשטאַמלינג m (opshtamling)
which derives directly from a given precursor or source
  • Dutch: afstammeling (nl) m, nakomeling (nl) m
  • Finnish: seuraaja (fi)
  • Maori: whakahekenga
  • Portuguese: descendente (pt) m or f
later evolutionary type
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 後裔/后裔 (zh) (hòuyì)
  • Danish: efterkommer c
  • Dutch: afstammeling (nl) m
  • Finnish: jälkeläinen (fi)
  • French: descendant (fr) m
  • German: Abkömmling (de) m
  • Icelandic: afkomandi m
  • Norman: d'scendant m
  • Portuguese: descendente (pt) m or f
  • Russian: пото́мок (ru) m (potómok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: потомак m
    Roman: pòtomak (sh) m
  • Turkish: feri (tr)
  • Ukrainian: наща́док m (naščádok)
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See also

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  • offspring
  • offshoot
  • progeny

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dēscendentem, the present participle of dēscendere, itself from dē + scandere (“climb, ascend”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/
  • Audio:(file)

Participle

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descendant

  1. present participle of descendre
  2. (preceded by en) gerund of descendre

Noun

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descendant m (plural descendants, feminine descendante)

  1. a descendant; one who is the progeny of someone at any distance of time; e.g. a child; a grandchild, etc.

Antonyms

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  • ancêtre m
  • ascendant m

Adjective

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descendant (feminine descendante, masculine plural descendants, feminine plural descendantes)

  1. (which is) descending
    Antonyms: ascendant, montant

Derived terms

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  • compatibilité descendante

Related terms

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  • descendance
  • descendre

Further reading

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  • “descendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

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Verb

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dēscendant

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of dēscendō
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