Word: condescended
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: con
de
scen
ded
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of condescend; treat condescendingly
Morphemes:
Affix: condescend
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down (to someone).
Etymology Compounds: Affix: con-
Language: la
Decoded: con-
Meaning: together
Affix: dēscendere
Language: la
Decoded: descendere
PoS: Verb
Meaning: I lower oneself, to stoop
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.