cadens

Borrowed from Italian cadenza or via German Kadenz (itself from Italian), from Latin cadentia. Doublet of kans, sjans, and cadans.

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈdɛns/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧dens
• Rhymes: -ɛns

cadens f (plural cadensen, diminutive cadensje n)

1. (music) cadence (progression of chords closing a piece or section)
2. (music) cadenza (closing embellishment)

• cadans

Present active participle of cadō (“fall”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.dẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.d̪ens]

cadēns (genitive cadentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. falling
2. of sun, moon, stars: setting
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.80-81:

     Post, ubi dīgressī, lūmenque obscūra vicissim
     lūna premit suādentque cadentia sīdera somnōs, [...].

     Afterward, when [all the guests] have departed, and a dim moon in turn hides her light, and the setting stars induce sleep, [...].
     (Cf. Aeneid 2.9.)

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• *cadentia (Vulgar Latin)
• decadēns
• decadentia