different between pend vs pendant

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /p?nd/
• Homophone: penned
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /p?nd/
  • Homophone: pinned
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pend?re, from Latin pend?re.

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down [15th-19th c.]
2. (obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault. [15th-18th c.]
3. (obsolete) To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     pending upon certain powerful motives

Noun

pend (plural pends)

1. (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard. [from 15th c.]

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:alley

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare pen (“to shut in”).

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.
   • 1564, Erasmus, NicholasUdall, Apophthegms

     soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron

Etymology 3

Back-formation from pending.

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something). [from 20th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 817:

     The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pend (uncountable)

1. (India) oil cake

Anagrams

• NDPE

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/

Verb

pend

1. third-person singular present indicative of pendre

Scots

Noun

pend (plural pends)

1. An arch, vault.
2. A passageway between houses.

Spanish

Etymology

Shortening of pendejo

Noun

pend m or f (plural pends)

1. (slang) dumbass; retard; plonker

English

Alternative forms

• pendaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pendaunt , Middle French pendant, noun use of adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?p?nd(?)nt/
• Homophone: pendent

Noun

pendant (plural pendants)

1. (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
3. The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
4. (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
5. (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.

   One vase is the pendant to the other vase.

6. (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.

7. (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th-17th c.]
8. (obsolete) A pendulum.
   • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises

     a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards

9. (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.

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10. A lamp hanging from the roof.
11. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
12. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• Pendant in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

Danish

Etymology

From French pendant (“counterpart”), from pendre (“to hang”), from Latin pendere (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan?dan?/, [p????d???]

Noun

pendant c (singular definite pendanten, plural indefinite pendanter)

1. counterpart
2. match
3. fellow
4. companion

Inflection

Synonyms

• modstykke

Further reading

• “pendant” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.d??/
• Homophone: pendants

Adjective

pendant (feminine singular pendante, masculine plural pendants, feminine plural pendantes)

1. hanging

Noun

pendant m (plural pendants)

1. stone that dangles on earrings
2. match, counterpart

Descendants

• ? Danish: pendant
• ? German: Pendant
• ? Italian: pendant

Preposition

pendant

1. during, throughout, for the duration of

Derived terms

• pendant que

Verb

pendant

1. present participle of pendre

Further reading

• “pendant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French pendant. Doublet of pendente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan?dan/

Noun

pendant m (invariable)

1. match (matching item)
2. pendant (dangling earing)

Further reading

• pendant in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

pendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of pend?

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ndant/

Adjective

pendant (feminine singular pendant, plural pendant, not comparable)

1. definite (free from any doubt)
2. positive

Derived terms

• yn bendant (“definitely”)

Mutation