descendとは

語源

From Middle English decenden, from Old French descendre, from Latin descendere, past participle descensus (“to come down, go down, fall, sink”), from de- (“down”) + scandere (“to climb”). See scan, scandent. Compare ascend, condescend, transcend.

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛnd/
• ハイフネーション (米国発音): de‧scend; (英国発音): des‧cend

動詞

descend (三人称単数 現在形 descends, 現在分詞 descending, 過去形および過去分詞形 descended)

1. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward

   The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.

   We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

2. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.

   [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.

3. (intransitive, with on または upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

   And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.

4. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself

   he descended from his high estate

5. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
6. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.

   the beggar may descend from a prince

   a crown descends to the heir

7. (intransitive, astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
8. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
9. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

   they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder

   But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.

同意語

• go down

反意語

• ascend
• go up

派生語

• descender

関連する語

• descent