descendent

• descendant

descendent (not comparable)

1. descending; going down

   The elevator resumed its descendent trajectory.

2. descending from (an ancestor)

   Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendent manner.

descendent (plural descendents)

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.

Borrowed from Latin dēscendēns, dēscendentem.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /də.sənˈdent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /də.sənˈden/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /de.senˈdent/

descendent (masculine and feminine plural descendents)

1. descending

• ascendent

descendent m or f (plural descendents)

1. descendant (one who is the progeny of a specified person)

• descendir

descendent

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

dēscendent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēscendō

Borrowed from French descendant, Latin dēscendēns, dēscendēntem.

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

1. descendent; descending; that which descends

descendent m (plural descendenți, feminine equivalent descendentă)

1. descendant

• descinde