pendant
See also: Pendant
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- pendaunt (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman pendaunt,[1] Middle French pendant, noun use of adjective.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pendant (plural pendants)
- (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
- A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
- The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
- (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
- (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
- One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
- (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.[2]
- A lamp hanging from the roof.
- An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
- A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
- (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
- 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology:
- Many […] have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.
- (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th–17th c.]
- (obsolete) A pendulum.
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
- a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
a piece of jewellery hung from a chain worn around the neck
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(nautical) short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “pendant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Pendant”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
Further reading edit
- Pendant in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From French pendant (“counterpart”), from pendre (“to hang”), from Latin pendere (“to hang”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pendant c (singular definite pendanten, plural indefinite pendanter)
Inflection edit
Declension of pendant
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | pendant | pendanten | pendanter | pendanterne |
genitive | pendants | pendantens | pendanters | pendanternes |
Synonyms edit
Further reading edit
- “pendant” in Den Danske Ordbog
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
pendant (feminine pendante, masculine plural pendants, feminine plural pendantes)
Noun edit
pendant m (plural pendants)
- stone that dangles on earrings
- match, counterpart
Descendants edit
Preposition edit
pendant
- during, throughout, for the duration of
Derived terms edit
Participle edit
pendant
Further reading edit
- “pendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French pendant. Doublet of pendente.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pendant m (invariable)
Further reading edit
- pendant in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Verb edit
pendant
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
pendant n (plural pendante)
Declension edit
Declension of pendant
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pendant | pendantul | (niște) pendante | pendantele |
genitive/dative | (unui) pendant | pendantului | (unor) pendante | pendantelor |
vocative | pendantule | pendantelor |
References edit
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
pendant (feminine singular pendant, plural pendant, not comparable)
Derived terms edit
- yn bendant (“definitely”)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
pendant | bendant | mhendant | phendant |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |