pendant

See also: Pendant

English

Alternative forms

• pendaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pendaunt, Middle French pendant, noun use of adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnd(ə)nt/

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛndənt
• Homophone: pendent

Noun

pendant (plural pendants)

1. (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
3. The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
4. (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
5. (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.

   One vase is the pendant to the other vase.

6. (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology

     Many […] have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.

7. (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th-17th c.]
8. (obsolete) A pendulum.
   • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises

     a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards

9. (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
10. A lamp hanging from the roof.
11. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
12. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.

Related terms

• penchant
• pendent
• to depend
• to impend
• to pend

 

Translations

a piece of jewellery hung from a chain worn around the neck

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: عِقْد‎ (ar) m (ʿiqd), قِلَادَة‎ f (qilāda), مُعَلَّق‎ (muʿallaq)
• Armenian: կախազարդ (hy) (kaxazard)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: огърлица (bg) f (ogǎrlica)
• Catalan: penjoll (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吊墜 (zh), 吊坠 (zh) (diàozhuì), 墜飾, 坠饰 (zhuìshì), 垂飾, 垂饰 (chuíshì)

• Czech: přívěsek m, přívěšek m
• Danish: vedhæng n
• Dutch: hanger (nl) m, hangertje (nl) n
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} pendaĵo, medaliono, kolĉeno, breloko
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: riipus (fi), vitja (fi)
• French: pendentif (fr) m
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Anhänger (de) m
• Greek: μενταγιόν (el) n (mentagión)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: תליון‎ (he) m (tilyón)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: függő (hu)
• Icelandic: nisti n, men n, hálsmen (is) n
• Indonesian: liontin (id)
• Irish: siogairlín m

• Italian: ciondolo (it) m
• Japanese: ペンダント (pendanto), 垂れ飾り (たれかざり, tarekazari)
• Khmer: បន្តោង (km) (bɑntaong)
• Korean: 펜던트 (pendeonteu)
• Latvian: kulons
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: приврзок m (privrzok)
• Maori: whakarupe, tautau, taupiko
• Navajo: nazhahí
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: wisiorek (pl), wisior (pl), brelok (pl)
• Portuguese: pingente (pt) m
• Romanian: pandantiv (ro) n
• Russian: куло́н (ru) m (kulón), подве́ска (ru) f (podvéska), брело́к (ru) m (brelók)
• Scottish Gaelic: crochadan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: при́весак m, при́вјесак m

  Roman: prívesak m, prívjesak (sh) m

• Slovak: prívesok m
• Spanish: colgante m, pendiente (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: tawing
• Turkish: pandantif (tr)
• Ukrainian: кулон m (kulon)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Pendant in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

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Danish

Etymology

From French pendant (“counterpart”), from pendre (“to hang”), from Latin pendere (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panɡdanɡ/, [pʰɑŋˈd̥ɑŋ]

Noun

pendant c (singular definite pendanten, plural indefinite pendanter)

1. counterpart
2. match
3. fellow
4. companion

Inflection

Declension of pendant

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pendant	pendanten	pendanter	pendanterne
genitive	pendants	pendantens	pendanters	pendanternes

Synonyms

• modstykke

Further reading

• “pendant” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.dɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: pendants

Adjective

pendant (feminine singular pendante, masculine plural pendants, feminine plural pendantes)

1. hanging

Noun

pendant m (plural pendants)

1. stone that dangles on earrings
2. match, counterpart

Descendants

• → Danish: pendant
• → German: Pendant
• → Italian: pendant
• → Polish: pendent

Preposition

pendant

1. during, throughout, for the duration of

Derived terms

• pendant que

Verb

pendant

1. present participle of pendre

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

From French pendant. Doublet of pendente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panˈdan/
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

pendant m (invariable)

1. match (matching item)
2. pendant (dangling earing)

Further reading

• pendant in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Verb

pendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of pendō

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛndant/

Adjective

pendant (feminine singular pendant, plural pendant, not comparable)

1. definite (free from any doubt)
2. positive

Derived terms

• yn bendant (“definitely”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pendant	bendant	mhendant	phendant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.