ascendant

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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈsɛnd(ə)nt/
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• General-American: /əˈsɛndənt/
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• rhymes with -ɛndənt
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 S EH1 N D AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *h2éd The adjective is derived from Late Middle English ascendent (“ascending, rising; increasing in quantity; (astronomy) rising above the horizon”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French ascendant, from Latin ascendentem, the accusative singular of ascendēns (“ascending, rising”), the present participle of ascendō, adscendō (“to climb up, go up, move upwards; to rise; to spring up”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘(up) to’) + scandō (“to ascend, climb, mount; to clamber”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump; to scan (poetry)”)). The English word is analysable as ascend (verb) + -ant (suffix forming adjectives from verbs with the sense of ‘doing [the verbal actions]’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective, though it is attested earlier than the latter.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: издигащ се (izdigašt se) — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Bulgarian: изгряващвъзходящ (izgrjavašt) — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Finnish: nouseva — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Finnish: nousussa oleva — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• French: ascendant — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Irish: ardaitheach — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Italian: nascente — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Italian: ascendente — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Italian: emergente — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Persian: براینده (barâyande) — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Persian: برآینده (bar-âyande) — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Persian: طالع (tâle') — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Portuguese: ascendente — moving upward — see also ascending, rising
• Bulgarian: господствуващ (gospodstvuvašt) — controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing
• Finnish: nousussa oleva — controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing
• Italian: dominante — controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing
• Italian: superiore — controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing
• Italian: dominante — controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing
• Persian: برآینده (bar-âyande) — controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing
• Finnish: nouseva — rising towards the zenith
• French: ascendant — rising towards the zenith
• Italian: ascendente — rising towards the zenith
• Finnish: nouseva — in an eastern direction rising just above the horizon
• French: ascendant — in an eastern direction rising just above the horizon
• Finnish: askendentti — degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope
• French: ascendant — degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope
• Hungarian: aszcendens — degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope
• Irish: uachtar — degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope
• Italian: ascendente — degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope
• Polish: ascendent — degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope
• Finnish: nousu — act of ascending or rising
• Finnish: nouseminen — act of ascending or rising
• Italian: ascesa — act of ascending or rising
• French: ascendant — ancestor — see also ancestor
• Italian: ascendente — ancestor — see also ancestor
• Italian: antenato — ancestor — see also ancestor
• Polish: ascendent — ancestor — see also ancestor
• Portuguese: ascendente — ancestor — see also ancestor