different between depend vs dependance

English

Etymology

From Middle English dependen, from Old French dependre and Latin depende?, from Latin d?- + pende? (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

depend (third-person singular simple present depends, present participle depending, simple past and past participle depended)

1. (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
3. (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.

4. (now literary) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
5. (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
   • 1703, The History Of King William The Third. In III Parts:

     While the Bishops Affair was depending, the King sent orders [...]

   • 1836, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench:

     In perjury, the capias, warrant, and affidavit, are good evidence that a cause was depending.

   • 1837, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 544:

     "A Letter of the King sent to his Proctors at Rome, concerning a Case of his in the said Court depending."

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Translations

References

• depend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• depend at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pended

English

Noun

dependance (countable and uncountable, plural dependances)

1. (archaic) dependence
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon, Chapter 5

     Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependance of one fact upon another...

   • 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition, book 3, chapter 12:

     More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone, potable gold, or any of those Arcana's whereby Paracelsus that died himself at forty seven, gloried that he could make other men immortal.

2. Misspelling of dependence.

Italian

Alternative forms

• dépendance

Etymology

French. Doublet of dipendenza.

Noun

dependance f (invariable)

1. outbuilding