pondus
See also: pondes
English
Etymology
Noun
pondus
- (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, p. 208:
- The pondus of wool at Alton Barnes and Stert is three cloves or 21 pounds.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208:
Anagrams
French
Verb
pondus
- masculine plural of the past participle of pondre
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
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From Proto-Italic *pondos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-os, from *(s)pend-. Cognate with Latin pendō, pendeō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn̪d̪us]
Noun
pondus n (genitive ponderis); third declension
- weight
- weight of a pound
- heaviness, weight of a body
- load, burden
- quantity, number, multitude
- consequence, importance
- (of character) firmness, constancy
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | 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
Related terms
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Descendants
See also
- Finnish: pontus (“overweight person”) (colloquial)
References
- “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’s 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)
- 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
Noun
pondus
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