descendencia
See also: descendència and descendência
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dēscendentia, from Latin dēscendēns. Compare Italian discendenza.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /desθenˈdenθja/ [d̪es.θẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̟.θja] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /desenˈdensja/ [d̪e.sẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: des‧cen‧den‧cia
Noun
[edit]descendencia f (plural descendencias)
- descendancy
- descendant
- Synonym: descendiente
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “descendencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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- Rhymes:Spanish/enθja
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