pondus

See also: pondes

English

Etymology

From Latin pondus (“a weight”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑndəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒndəs/
• Rhymes: (General American) -ɑndəs

Noun

pondus

1. (historical) An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, perhaps equal to 3 cloves.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 208:

     The pondus of wool at Alton Barnes and Stert is three cloves or 21 pounds.

Related terms

• pondus Judaeus

Anagrams

• Pounds, pounds, snod up

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pondus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʌndus]

Noun

pondus (singular definite pondussen, not used in plural form)

1. gravity, authority, weightfulness

References

• “pondus” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Participle

pondus m pl

1. masculine plural of pondu

Anagrams

• dupons

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pondos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-os, from *(s)pend-. Related to pendō, pendeō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔn.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔn.dus]

Noun

pondus n (genitive ponderis); third declension

1. weight

   Synonyms: mōlēs, onus, gravitās

2. weight of a pound
3. heaviness, weight of a body
4. load, burden
5. quantity, number, multitude
6. consequence, importance

   Synonyms: importantia, gravitās, mōmentum, opportūnitās

7. (of character) firmness, constancy

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	pondus	pondera
genitive	ponderis	ponderum
dative	ponderī	ponderibus
accusative	pondus	pondera
ablative	pondere	ponderibus
vocative	pondus	pondera

Synonyms

• (firmness, constancy): cōnstantia, firmitās, firmitūdō

Derived terms

• aequipondium
• centumpondium
• dupondius
• interpondium
• ponderāle
• ponderārium
• ponderitās
• ponderō
• ponderōsus
• pondiculum
• pondō
• pondusculum
• superpondium
• trepondo

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pondulus
  • Italian: pondio (regional)
• → Irish: poinn, puinn
• → Italian: pondo
• → Proto-Germanic: *pundą (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: pondere
• → Russian: пуд (pud)
• → Welsh: pwn

Further reading

• “pondus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pondus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pondus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pondus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
    
• “pondus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɔndʉs]

Noun

pondus

1. gravity, authority, weightfulness