different between pendent vs pendency

English

Etymology

From Latin pendens, pendentis, p.pr. of pendere to hang, to be suspended. Compare pendant. From Anglo-Norman pendaunt, Old French pendant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?nd?nt/

Adjective

pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)

1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:

     The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]

   • 1986, Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces

     An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.

2. pending in various senses.
3. (architecture, of a structure) either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
4. (grammar, of a sentence) incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
5. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.

Translations

Noun

pendent (plural pendents)

1. Alternative spelling of pendant

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pend?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /p?n?dent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p?n?den/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pen?dent/

Adjective

pendent (masculine and feminine plural pendents)

1. pending, unresolved; waiting on
2. sloped, sloping, inclined

Noun

pendent m (plural pendents)

1. slope, incline

Further reading

• “pendent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pendent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “pendent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pendent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Verb

pendent

1. third-person plural present indicative of pendre
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of pendre

Latin

Verb

pendent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pend?
2. third-person plural present active indicative of pende?

Occitan

Pronunciation

Preposition

pendent

1. during

   Synonym: durant

English

Noun

pendency (uncountable)

1. The state of being pendent; suspension.
   • 2018, Rory Little, Opinion analysis: A DIG in Vogt, SCOTUSblog, May 29, 2018

     The long pendency of the case before this dismissal suggests deep disagreements among the justices on the substantive issues.

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