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Galician
Verb
pendo
- first-person singular present indicative of pender
Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
pendo
- first-person singular present indicative of pendere
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pendō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”). Related to pendeō, pondus.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
pendō (present infinitive pendere, perfect active pependī, supine pēnsum); third conjugation
- to weigh, weigh out
- Synonym: ponderō
- to pay
- Synonyms: ērogō, dissolvo, persolvo, absolvo, luo, solvo
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
- Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
- If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.
- (figuratively) to consider, ponder
- Synonyms: perpendō, reflectō, ponderō, putō, cōnsīderō, dēlīberō, reputō, cōnsulō, replicō, dubitō, cōnsultō, circumspiciō, videō, trahō, versō
Conjugation
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Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pendō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457
Further reading
- “pendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pendo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) important results are often produced by trivial causes: ex parvis saepe magnarum rerum momenta pendent
- (ambiguous) to pay taxes: vectigalia, tributa pendere
- (ambiguous) to be punished by some one (on account of a thing): poenas alicui pendere (alicuius rei)
Portuguese
Verb
pendo
- first-person singular present indicative of pender
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpendo/
- Rhymes: -endo
- Syllabification: pen‧do
Verb
pendo
- first-person singular present indicative of pender
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
pendo (ma class, plural mapendo)
- Alternative form of upendo