pondus
See also: pondes
English
Etymology
From Latin pondus (“a weight”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑndəs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒndəs/
- Rhymes: (General American) -ɑndəs
Noun
pondus
- (historical) An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, perhaps equal to 3 cloves.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208:
- The pondus of wool at Alton Barnes and Stert is three cloves or 21 pounds.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208:
Anagrams
- Pounds, pounds, snod up
French
Participle
pondus m pl
- masculine plural of the past participle of pondre
Anagrams
- dupons
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pondos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-os, from *(s)pend-. Related to pendō, pendeō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn̪d̪us]
Noun
pondus n (genitive ponderis); third declension
- weight
- Synonyms: mōlēs, onus, gravitās
- weight of a pound
- heaviness, weight of a body
- load, burden
- quantity, number, multitude
- consequence, importance
- Synonyms: importantia, gravitās, mōmentum, opportūnitās
- (of character) firmness, constancy
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pondus | pondera |
Genitive | ponderis | ponderum |
Dative | ponderī | ponderibus |
Accusative | pondus | pondera |
Ablative | pondere | ponderibus |
Vocative | pondus | pondera |
Synonyms
- (firmness, constancy): cōnstantia, firmitās, firmitūdō
Derived terms
- aequipondium
- centumpondium
- dupondius
- interpondium
- ponderārium
- ponderitās
- ponderō
- ponderōsus
- pondiculum
- pondō
- pondusculum
- superpondium
- trepondo
Descendants
- → Proto-Germanic: *pundą (see there for further descendants)
- → Irish: poinn, puinn
- → Portuguese: pondo
- → Russian: пуд (pud)
- → Romanian: pondere
References
- “pondus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pondus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pondus 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)
- pondus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
- gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
- “pondus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpʰɔndʉs]
Noun
pondus
- gravity, authority, weightfulness