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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēscendentem.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /dɨʃ.sẽˈdẽ.tɨ/, /dɨ.ʃẽˈdẽ.tɨ/
Adjective
descendente m or f (plural descendentes)
- descending
- downward
Noun
descendente m or f by sense (plural descendentes)
- descendant
Derived terms
Further reading
- “descendente”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “descendente”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “descendente” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “descendente”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “descendente”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “descendente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēscendentem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /desθenˈdente/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /desenˈdente/
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: des‧cen‧den‧te
Adjective
descendente m or f (masculine and feminine plural descendentes)
- descending, downward
- Antonym: ascendente
Further reading