descendance, n.f., descent, lineage, pedigree, birth, extraction.
descendant, -e, adj., descending, going down; (milit.) coming off duty.
descendant, n.m., -e, n.f., descendant, offspring, progeny.
descendant, n.m., (l.u.) ebb-tide.
descendre, v.n., to descend; to go down; to go down stairs; to come, to step, to get down; to alight; to stay, to put up; to fall; to reach; to come from; (nav.) to land; to ebb, to subside. Descendez vite; make haste and come down. — de cheval; to dismount. — de voiture; to get out of, or to alight from, a carriage. — d’un bateau; to get out of or off a boat. — dans un puits; to go down into a well. La marée descend; the tide is ebbing. — dans sa conscience; to examine one’s conscience. Il descendit à l’hôtel; he put up at the hotel. Nous descendîmes dans une île; we landed on an island. Il vaut mieux monter que —; it is better to rise than to fall.
descendre, v.a., to descend, to take down, to bring, to let down; to go, to come, to get down; to set down; to land. Descendez ce tableau; take that picture down. Où vous descendrai-je? where shall I set you down? — la garde; to come off guard. Faire —; to bring down, to fetch down, to let down, to send down; to lower, to sink.
descente, n.f., descent; going down; taking down; subsiding (of waters); dismounting; disembarkment; (fin.) run; declivity; irruption; rupture, hernia; (milit.) coming off guard. La justice a fait une — chez lui; the police have searched his house. — de lit; bedside carpet, rug.
descriptible, adj., describable.
descripti-f, -ve, adj., descriptive.
description, n.f., description, inventory.