English → Latin
“descendant” in Latin
prōgeniēsrace, family, progeny, lineage, descentposterusfollowing, next, coming after; inferiororiorto rise, get up; to appear, arise, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originateTeutonēsThe Teutons, an ancient tribe associated with the Cimbri and defeated by the Romans under Gaius Mariusmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, m
The English word descendant itself goes back to Latin dē, through dēscendēns.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
descendant
progenies: anybody’s descendant., oriundus ab aliquo; prognatus ex aliquo: anybody’s descendants, posteri; progenies: to be a descendant from anybody, oriundum, ortum esse ab aliquo (the latter seldom); prognatum esse ex aliquo: the Atnatici were descendants of the Cimbri and the Teutones, Atnatici erant ex Cimbris Teutonisque prognati: male descendants, stirps virilis; virilis sexus stirps: to leave descendants, stirpem relinquere; ex se natos (sc. filios) relinquere: to leave no male descendants, virilem sexum non relinquere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for descendant?
- The usual Latin words for “descendant” are prōgeniēs, posterus, orior; also Teutonēs, malus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.