Picture a star just clearing the eastern horizon. What you notice is not where it has stopped — it has not stopped — but that it is climbing. Ascendant holds that moment of climbing. Everything else the word does is that same climb pointed at something else: at one exact instant of it (the astrological ascendant), or at a party, a company or a reputation moving up past the things around it.
From the word’s history
Latin ascendere, from ad- ('up to') plus scandere ('to climb'), gives the present participle ascendens, 'climbing'. The modern core is that participle, unchanged.
拉丁文 ascendere 是 ad-（往…去）加 scandere（攀登），意思是往上爬。ascendēns 是它的現在分詞，「正在往上爬的」。今天這個字的核心就是那個分詞，幾乎原封不動。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet: 'from Latin ascendentem ... present participle of ascendō, adscendō ... from ad- + scandō'.
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