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Latin
Etymology
From dē- + pendeō (“I am suspended, hang”).
Pronunciation
Verb
dēpendeō (present infinitive dēpendēre, perfect active dēpendī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to hang down, from or on
- to wait for
- to be dependent on or governed by
- to depend on, to be derived from
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Reflexes of an assumed variant *dēpendĕre:
See also
References
- “dependeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dependeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dependeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to suffer punishment: poenas dependere, expendere, solvere, persolvere