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From pēns-(“suspended, weighed”)(perfect passive participial stem of pendō(“to weigh out”); see also pendeō(“hang”)) + -ilis(suffix forming adjectives).
“pensilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pensilis 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)
pensilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.