English
scandent
Scandent comes from Latin scandō ‘to climb’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump up, ascend’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*skend-‘to jump up, ascend’by way of Proto-Italic *skandōreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscandōas scandere, present participle stem‘to climb’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985scandent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*skend-‘to jump up, ascend’by way of Proto-Italic *skandōreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscandōas scandere, present participle stem‘to climb’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985scandent
Earliest quotation: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow: “I found but a single specimen—a scandent shrub of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump up, ascend’
echelon, slander, descend, escalator, scala, skein, 12 more
through Latin scandō ‘to climb’
Today it means
adj Climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *skend- / scandent