pendule

English

Etymology

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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French

Etymology

Middle French funependule, borrowed from Latin funependulus, from the ablative of funis + pendulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɑ̃dyl/

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Noun

pendule m (plural pendules)

1. pendulum

pendule f (plural pendules)

1. clock

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Italian

Adjective

pendule f

1. Feminine plural form of pendulo

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Latin

Adjective

pendule

1. vocative masculine singular of pendulus