different between descendant vs blood

English

Etymology

From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin d?scend?ns, present participle of descendere, from d? + scandere (“to climb, ascend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s?nd?nt/
• Hyphenation: des?cen?dant

Adjective

descendant (not comparable)

1. descending from a biological ancestor.
2. proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.

Usage notes

The adjective may be spelled either with ant or ent as the final syllable (see descendent). The noun may be spelled only with ant.

Alternative forms

• descendent

Antonyms

• ascendant, ascendent, ascending

Related terms

• descendancy

Noun

descendant (plural descendants)

1. One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.

   The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.

2. (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.

   This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.

3. (biology) A later evolutionary type.

   Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.

4. (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.

   English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.

5. (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
   • 1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ?-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp (editors), Comparative-Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, ?ISBN, page 479:

   Synonyms: reflex, derivative

   Antonym: etymon

   Coordinate term: cognate

Usage notes

The adjective may be spelled either with ant or ent as the final syllable (see descendent). The noun may be spelled only with ant.

Synonyms

• (offspring): afterbear, offspring, scion, and see Thesaurus:child & relative

Antonyms

• ascendant
• ancestor
• forebear

Derived terms

• direct descendant
• indirect descendant

Translations

See also

• offspring
• offshoot
• progeny

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?scend?ns, d?scend?ntem, the present participle of descendere, itself from d? + scandere (“climb, ascend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.s??.d??/

Verb

descendant

1. present participle of descendre
2. (preceded by en) gerund of descendre

Noun

descendant m (plural descendants, feminine descendante)

1. A descendant; one who is the progeny of someone at any distance of time; e.g. a child; a grandchild, etc.

Antonyms

• ancêtre m
• ascendant m

Adjective

descendant (feminine singular descendante, masculine plural descendants, feminine plural descendantes)

1. (which is) descending.

Antonyms

• ascendant
• montant

Derived terms

• compatibilité descendante

Related terms

• descendance
• descendre

Further reading

• “descendant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

d?scendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of d?scend?

English

Alternative forms

• bloud (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English blood, from Old English bl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *bl?d, from Proto-Germanic *bl?þ?, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e "that which bursts out". Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bloud, West Frisian bloed, Dutch bloed, German Blut, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian blod.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bl?d, IPA^(key): /bl?d/
• (Northern England) enPR: blo?od, IPA^(key): /bl?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

blood (countable and uncountable, plural bloods)

1. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
2. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).
   • 1690, Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered

     a friend of our own blood
3. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
4. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
5. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
   • 1841, Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus, page 95:

     It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."

   • 1901, Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture, fourth edition, page 57:

     Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]

   • 1916, John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest, page 44:

     Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood. It is white and looks very much like water; [...]

6. (poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.

   • He washed […] his clothes in the blood of grapes.

7. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; mood
8. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 3:

     […] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]

9. A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
10. (figuratively) Bloodshed.

    They came looking for blood.
11. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).

Synonyms

• (liquid): purging (when removed)
• (familiar relationship) background, descent, heritage, stock

Hyponyms

• lifeblood

Derived terms

Related terms

• bleed
• bloody mary
• bless
• blessing

Descendants

• ? Greek: ??????? (blánti)
• Torres Strait Creole: blad

Translations

See blood/translations § Noun.

See also

• coagulation
• sanguinary
• sanguine
• hemato-

Verb

blood (third-person singular simple present bloods, present participle blooding, simple past and past participle blooded)

1. (transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

   • The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him fall, Adderly damning him for having blooded his wastecoat […]

2. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 121:

     Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention.

   • 1785, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 212:

     She had been blooded, he said, 12 times in this last fortnight, and had lost 75 ounces of blood, besides undergoing blistering,and other discipline.

3. (transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

Translations

Further reading

• blood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• blood at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• boldo

Dutch

Alternative forms

• blo

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bl?de, from Old Dutch *bl?di, from Frankish *blauthi, from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blo?t/
• Hyphenation: blood
• Rhymes: -o?t
• Homophone: bloot

Adjective

blood (comparative bloder, superlative bloodst)

1. (archaic) not courageous
2. (archaic) timid

Synonyms

• (cowardly) laf
• (timid) beschroomd, verlegen

Derived terms

• bloodaard

Related terms

• liever blode Jan dan dode Jan

References

• [2]

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Middle Low German blôt, from Old Saxon bl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *bl?d, from Proto-Germanic *bl?þ?.

Noun

blood n

1. blood

See also

• German Low German: Blood, Bloot

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blod, blode, bloode, bloud

Etymology

From Old English bl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *bl?d, from Proto-Germanic *bl?þ?, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blo?d/
• Rhymes: -o?d

Noun

blood (plural bloods)

1. blood

Derived terms

• herte blood

Descendants

• English: blood
• Scots: bluid
• Yola: blooed

References

• “bl??d, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.