pendent
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pendens, pendentis, p.pr. of pendere to hang, to be suspended. Compare pendant. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. pendaunt, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French pendant.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)
- Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
- 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:
- Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
- The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]
- 1986, Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces
- An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
- pending in various senses.
- (architecture, of a structure) either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
- (grammar, of a sentence) incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
- (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
Translations
hanging down
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Noun
pendent (plural pendents)
- Alternative spelling of pendant
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
pendent m or f (masculine and feminine plural pendents)
Noun
pendent m (plural pendents)
Further reading
- “pendent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pendent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “pendent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pendent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃d
Verb
pendent
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) pendent
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