Noun: ascendencia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: as‧cen‧den‧cia
| Singular f | ascendencia |
| Plural f | ascendencias |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like ascendencia
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Pseudo-Latinism, as if from the nonexistent noun *ascendentia. Formed from ascender + -encia. While ascendentia is a real word in Latin, it is only a form of the participle ascendēns. Note that Latin does not use ascendentem, the accusative singular of this participle, to refer to an ancestor; words for ancestor include progenitor (literally “progenitor”) and avus (literally “grandfather”).
2. Cognate with Catalan ascendència, French ascendance, Italian ascendenza, Portuguese ascendência, and Romanian ascendență. See: Catalan Nouns '
ascendència', French Nouns '
ascendance', Italian Nouns '
ascendenza', Portuguese Nouns '
ascendência', Romanian Nouns '
ascendență'.
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