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ascend

/əˈsend/uh-SEND
/əˈsɛnd/uh-SEND

Meaningto climb up

Common meaning: to climb up

‘to, towards, at (Latin ad-, often through French a-)’ + ‘to climb’ → ascend

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√SKAND‘spring, spring up, climb’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 400, p. 744 · scan
  2. Latinscandō, scānsum‘to climb’
  3. Englishascend‘to climb up’ · today

a- also in: amuseapartavailamountaplomb

scend also in: descendcondescend

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin scandō ‘to climb’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry scandō, p. 1639 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

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