pendule
English
Etymology
French
Noun
pendule (plural pendules)
- (obsolete) A pendulum.
- 1683 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for August 1 1683]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, OCLC 976971842:
- draw the meridian from my pendule
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pendule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Etymology
From Middle French funependule, borrowed from Latin funependulus, from the ablative of funis + pendulus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɑ̃.dyl/
Audio (file)
Noun
pendule m (plural pendules)
- pendulum
- Il a fait osciller le pendule de droite à gauche.
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Noun
pendule f (plural pendules)
- pendulum clock
Derived terms
- remettre les pendules à l'heure
Further reading
- “pendule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Adjective
pendule
- feminine plural of pendulo
Latin
Adjective
pendule
- vocative masculine singular of pendulus