pendant

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

pendant (plural pendants)

  1. (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
  2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
  3. The dangling part of an earring.
  4. (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
  5. (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
    One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
  6. (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
  7. A lamp hanging from the roof.
  8. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
  9. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
  10. (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.
  11. (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles.
  12. (obsolete) A pendulum.
    • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
      a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards

Derived terms

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Translations

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pendant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Pendant”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. , volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton , →OCLC.

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

pendant c (singular definite pendanten, plural indefinite pendanter)

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

Inflection

Declension of pendant
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pendant pendanten pendanter pendanterne
genitive pendants pendantens pendanters pendanternes

Synonyms

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

pendant (feminine 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
  • → Hungarian: pandan
  • → Italian: pendant
  • → Polish: pendent

Preposition

pendant

  1. during, throughout, for the duration of

Derived terms

Participle

pendant

  1. present participle of pendre

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French pendant. Doublet of pendente.

Pronunciation

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 pendō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pendant.

Noun

pendant n (plural pendante)

  1. match, counterpart

Declension

Declension of pendant
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pendant pendantul (niște) pendante pendantele
genitive/dative (unui) pendant pendantului (unor) pendante pendantelor
vocative pendantule pendantelor

References

  • pendant in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pendant bendant mhendant phendant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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