pendent

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]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛndənt/
• Homophone: pendant

pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)

1. 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.

2. Pending in various senses.
3. (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.
4. (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
5. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.

• pendentive

pendent (plural pendents)

1. Alternative spelling of pendant

From Latin pendēns.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pənˈdent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pənˈden/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /penˈdent/

pendent (masculine and feminine plural pendents)

1. pending, unresolved; waiting on
2. sloped, sloping, inclined

pendent m (plural pendents)

1. slope, incline

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃d/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

pendent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of pendre

pendent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pendō
2. third-person plural present active indicative of pendeō

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pendent

1. during

   Synonym: durant

Borrowed from French pendant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛn.dɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛndɛnt
• Syllabification: pen‧dent

pendent m inan

1. baldric

• pendent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pendent in Polish dictionaries at PWN