condescender

From condescend +‎ -er.

condescender (plural condescenders)

1. One who condescends.
   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 34:

     It was almost a surprise to remember that he could be proud—that he was proud—of all that he had seen and done abroad, and to feel himself distinguished by the habituated worldliness that since his homecoming had seemed to mark him only as a deserter, a tiresome condescender, and an apostate — not just of his religion, but of his family, of his country, and even, in some impenetrable way, of himself.

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin condēscendere, from Latin con- + dēscendō.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kondesθenˈdeɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kondesenˈdeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: con‧des‧cen‧der

condescender (first-person singular present condesciendo, first-person singular preterite condescendí, past participle condescendido)

1. to comply; acquiesce

• “condescender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10