pendent
English
This arch is stable as it stands, but all the voussoirs are pendent (3) and removal of any one of them would cause the structure to collapse
Pendent (3) structure in architecture: Binondo Church Dome with its pendentives
Etymology
From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.[1]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɛndənt/
- Homophone: pendant
Adjective
pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)
- Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 312–314:
- Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
- 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 1467112, lines 932–935, page 149:
- Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; […]
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
- The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]
- 1986, Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces
- An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
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- Pending in various senses.
- (architecture, of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
- (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
- (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
Related terms
- pendentive
Translations
hanging down
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Noun
pendent (plural pendents)
- Alternative spelling of pendant
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “pendent”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin pendēns.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /pənˈdent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /pənˈden/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /penˈdent/
Adjective
pendent (masculine and feminine plural pendents)
- pending, unresolved; waiting on
- sloped, sloping, inclined
Noun
pendent m (plural pendents)
- slope, incline
Further reading
- “pendent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pendent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “pendent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pendent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɑ̃d/
Audio (CAN) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃d
Verb
pendent
- third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of pendre
Latin
Verb
pendent
- third-person plural future active indicative of pendō
- third-person plural present active indicative of pendeō
Occitan
Pronunciation
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Preposition
pendent
- during
- Synonym: durant
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French pendant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛn.dɛnt/
- Rhymes: -ɛndɛnt
- Syllabification: pen‧dent
Noun
pendent m inan
- baldric
Declension
Declension of pendent
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pendent | pendenty |
| genitive | pendentu | pendentów |
| dative | pendentowi | pendentom |
| accusative | pendent | pendenty |
| instrumental | pendentem | pendentami |
| locative | pendencie | pendentach |
| vocative | pendencie | pendenty |
Further reading
- pendent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pendent in Polish dictionaries at PWN