pendule

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French pendule.

Noun

pendule (plural pendules)

1. (obsolete) A pendulum.
   • 1683 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for August 1 1683]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:

     draw the meridian from my pendule

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pendule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.dyl/

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Etymology 1

Clipping of Middle French funependule, a borrowing from Latin funependulus, from the ablative of funis + pendulus.

Noun

pendule m (plural pendules)

1. pendulum

   Il a fait osciller le pendule de droite à gauche.

   He swung the pendulum from right to left.

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of horloge à pendule.

Noun

pendule f (plural pendules)

1. pendulum clock

Derived terms

• remettre les pendules à l’heure

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: pandil
• → Spanish: pandil

Further reading

• “pendule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

pendule

1. feminine plural of pendulo

Latin

Adjective

pendule

1. vocative masculine singular of pendulus