pendent
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.[1]
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pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)
- Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 312–314:
- Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
- 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, published 2007, page 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.
- (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
- 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:
- Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.
- 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 89:
- Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.
- 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 49:
- JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.
- 1981, Bruno Bernhard Heim, Armorial Bruno Bernard Heim, Colin Smythe:
- page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.
- (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
- (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
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pendent (plural pendents)
- Alternative spelling of pendant
References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “pendent”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pendentem.
Pronunciation edit
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pendent m or f (masculine and feminine plural pendents)
Noun edit
pendent m (plural pendents)
Further reading edit
- “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.
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pendent
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pendent
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Polish edit
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pendent m inan
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Declension of pendent
singular | plural | |
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nominative | pendent | pendenty |
genitive | pendentu | pendentów |
dative | pendentowi | pendentom |
accusative | pendent | pendenty |
instrumental | pendentem | pendentami |
locative | pendencie | pendentach |
vocative | pendencie | pendenty |
Further reading edit
- pendent in Polish dictionaries at PWN