pondus

See also: pondes

English

Etymology

From Latin pondus (“a weight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑndəs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒndəs/
• Rhymes: (General American) -ɑndəs

Noun

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, p. 208:

     The pondus of wool at Alton Barnes and Stert is three cloves or 21 pounds.

Anagrams

• Pounds, pounds, snod up

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French

Participle

pondus m pl

1. masculine plural of the past participle of pondre

Anagrams

• dupons

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn̪d̪us]

Noun

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

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

Synonyms

• (firmness, constancy): cōnstantia, firmitās, firmitūdō

Derived terms

• aequipondium
• centumpondium
• dupondius
• interpondium
• ponderārium
• ponderitās
• ponderō
• ponderōsus
• pondiculum
• pondō
• pondusculum
• superpondium
• trepondo

Descendants

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

See also

• Finnish: pontus (“overweight person”) (colloquial)

References

• “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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɔndʉs]

Noun

pondus

1. gravity, authority, weightfulness