descendens

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of dēscendō.

Participle

dēscendēns (genitive dēscendentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. descending

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	dēscendēns			dēscendentēs	dēscendentia
genitive	dēscendentis			dēscendentium
dative	dēscendentī			dēscendentibus
accusative	dēscendentem	dēscendēns		dēscendentēs dēscendentīs	dēscendentia
ablative	dēscendente dēscendentī1			dēscendentibus
vocative	dēscendēns			dēscendentēs	dēscendentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Catalan: descendent
• English: descendant
• French: descendant
• Italian: discendente
• Portuguese: descendente
• Romanian: descendent
• Spanish: descendente

References

• “descendens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• descendens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.