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/
• Homophone: pendent

Noun

pendant (plural pendants)

1. (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
2. (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th-17th c.]
3. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
4. (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
5. The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
6. (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
   • Keightley

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

7. (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.

   One vase is the pendant to the other vase.

8. (obsolete) A pendulum.

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9. (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.

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Translations

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

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• Armenian: կախազարդ (hy) (kaxazard)
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• 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
• Danish: vedhæng n
• Dutch: hanger (nl) m, hangertje (nl) n
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• 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)
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• 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
• 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: привесак m, привјесак m

  Roman: privesak m, privjesak (sh) m

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• 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
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Related terms

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

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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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.dɑ̃/

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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

Preposition

pendant

1. during, throughout, for the duration of

Derived terms

• pendant que

Verb

pendant

1. present participle of pendre

Further reading

• “pendant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

From French pendant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panˈdan/

Noun

pendant m (invariable)

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

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Latin

Verb

pendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of pendō