descendencia
See also: descendència and descendência
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dēscendentia, from Latin dēscendēns. Compare Italian discendenza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desθenˈdenθja/ [d̪es.θẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /desenˈdensja/ [d̪e.sẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: des‧cen‧den‧cia
Noun
descendencia f (plural descendencias)
- descendancy
- descendant
- Synonym: descendiente
Related terms
Further reading
- “descendencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024