different between pensile vs drooping

English

Alternative forms

• pensill (obsolete)

Etymology

From classical Latin p?nsilis, from the past participle stem of pendere (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?nsa?l/

Adjective

pensile (comparative more pensile, superlative most pensile)

1. Hanging down, suspended.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 165)

     However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]

Anagrams

• Lepines, espinel, sleep in, sleep-in

Italian

Etymology

From Latin p?nsilis (“hanging”). Doublet of pesolo. Compare Portuguese pênsil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pen?si.le/
• Rhymes: -?nsile

Adjective

pensile (plural pensili)

1. hanging, suspended

Derived terms

• giardino pensile
• pensilina

Noun

pensile m (plural pensili)

1. wall cabinet; wall cupboard

Latin

Adjective

p?nsile

1. nominative neuter singular of p?nsilis
2. accusative neuter singular of p?nsilis
3. vocative neuter singular of p?nsilis

English

Etymology

droop +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?u?p??/

• Rhymes: -u?p??

Verb

drooping

1. present participle of droop

Noun

drooping (plural droopings)

1. An instance of something drooping.

Adjective

drooping (comparative more drooping, superlative most drooping)

1. That droops or droop.

   drooping flowers