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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, 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[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:

     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, published 2007, page 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. (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
   • 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:

     Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.

   • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 89:

     Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.

   • 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 49:

     JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.

   • 1981, Bruno Bernhard Heim, Armorial Bruno Bernard Heim, Colin Smythe:

     page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.

5. (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
6. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.

• pendent jurisdiction
• pendently

• pendentive

pendent (plural pendents)

1. Alternative spelling of pendant.

Borrowed from Latin pendentem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pənˈden]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pənˈdent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [penˈdent]

pendent m or f (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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pendent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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 Polish dictionaries at PWN