pondus

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See also: pondes

English

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Etymology

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From Latin pondus (a weight).

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Noun

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pondus

  1. (historical) An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, perhaps equal to 3 cloves.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 208:
      The pondus of wool at Alton Barnes and Stert is three cloves or 21 pounds.
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French

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Participle

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pondus m pl

  1. masculine plural of pondu

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *pondos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-os, from *(s)pend-. Related to pendō, pendeō.

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Noun

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pondus n (genitive ponderis); third declension

  1. weight
    Synonyms: mōlēs, onus, gravitās
  2. weight of a pound
  3. heaviness, weight of a body
  4. load, burden
  5. quantity, number, multitude
  6. consequence, importance
    Synonyms: importantia, gravitās, mōmentum, opportūnitās
  7. (of character) firmness, constancy

Declension

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pondus pondera
Genitive ponderis ponderum
Dative ponderī ponderibus
Accusative pondus pondera
Ablative pondere ponderibus
Vocative pondus pondera

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Proto-Germanic: *pundą (see there for further descendants)
  • Irish: poinn, puinn
  • Russian: пуд (pud)
  • Romanian: pondere
  • Welsh: pwn

References

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  • pondus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pondus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pondus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pondus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
  • pondus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

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pondus

  1. gravity, authority, weightfulness