different between pendant vs pendulum

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from the neuter of Latin pendulus (“hanging”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?nd???l?m/
• US (some regions): IPA^(key): /?p?nd???l?m/

Noun

pendulum (plural pendulums or pendula) (See usage notes.)

1. A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.
2. A lamp, etc. suspended from a ceiling.
3. A watch's guard-ring by which it is attached to a chain.

Usage notes

The plural form pendula is significantly rarer than pendulums; see etymology at pendula for details. However, pendula is occasionally used in physics.

Related terms

• Foucault’s pendulum
• pendant

Translations

See also

• simple harmonic motion

Anagrams

• unplumed

Latin

Adjective

pendulum

1. nominative neuter singular of pendulus
2. accusative masculine singular of pendulus
3. accusative neuter singular of pendulus
4. vocative neuter singular of pendulus

References

• pendulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)