pendule

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

pendule (plural pendules)

1. (obsolete) A pendulum.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pendule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French funependule, borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin funependulus, from the ablative of funis + pendulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.dyl/

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Noun

pendule m (plural pendules)

1. pendulum

pendule f (plural pendules)

1. pendulum clock

Further reading

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

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Italian

Adjective

pendule

1. feminine plural of pendulo

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) pendule

1. vocative masculine singular of pendulus