descendir

Catalan

Etymology

Early borrowing from Latin dēscendere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.sənˈdi]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [de.senˈdiɾ]
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  • Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb

descendir (first-person singular present descendeixo, first-person singular preterite descendí, past participle descendit)

  1. (intransitive) to descend, to go down (to pass from a higher to a lower place)
    Synonyms: baixar, davallar
  2. (intransitive) to descend, to drop, to fall (to come down to a lower state)
    Synonyms: baixar, disminuir, minvar
  3. (intransitive) to descend (to pass from the more general to the particular)
  4. (intransitive) to descend (to come down, as from a source; to be derived)

Conjugation