pend

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛnd/
• Homophone: penned
  • IPA^(key): /pɪnd/
  • Homophone: pinned
• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (obsolete) To hang down. [15th-19th c.]
2. (obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault. [15th-18th c.]
3. To hang; to depend.
   • (Can we date this quote by Isaac Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     pending upon certain powerful motions

Noun

pend (plural pends)

1. (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard. [from 15th c.]

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:alley

Translations

a large vaulted passageway

• Finnish: holvikäytävä
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Etymology 2

Compare pen (“to shut in”).

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.
   • (Can we date this quote by Nicholas Udall and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     pended within the limits […] of Greece

Etymology 3

Back-formation from pending.

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something). [from 20th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 817:

     The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.

Etymology 4

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Noun

pend (uncountable)

1. (India) oil cake

Anagrams

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French

Verb

pend

1. third-person singular present indicative of pendre

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Scots

Noun

pend (plural pends)

1. An arch, vault.
2. A passageway between houses.

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Spanish

Etymology

Shortening of pendejo

Noun

pend m or f (plural pends)

1. (slang) dumbass; retard; plonker