descendant
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈsɛndənt/
descendant (not comparable)
- descending from a biological ancestor.
- proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
descendant (plural descendants)
- (literally) One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- ''The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- ''This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- ''Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- 1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ē-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp (editors), Comparative-Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, ISBN 978-90-272-3598-5, page 479 ↗:
- The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. nȍsī, dȍnosī.
- 1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ē-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp (editors), Comparative-Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, ISBN 978-90-272-3598-5, page 479 ↗:
- (offspring) afterbear, offspring, scion, and see Thesaurus:child & relative
- French: descendant, descendante
- German: Nachkomme, Nachkommin, Deszendent, Deszendentin, Spross, Sproß (old spelling), Sprössling, Abkomme, Abkommin, Abkömmling, Nachfahr, Nachfahre, Nachfahrin, Nachkömmling, Nachwuchs
- Italian: discendente
- Portuguese: descendente
- Russian: пото́мок
- Spanish: descendiente
- Portuguese: descendente
- French: descendant
- German: Abkömmling
- Portuguese: descendente
- Russian: пото́мок
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