pendeo
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *pendēō, from earlier *pendējō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pn̥d-éh₁ye-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to stretch, pull, draw”). Related to pendō, pondus.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpen.de.oː/, [ˈpɛn̪d̪eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpen.de.o/, [ˈpɛn̪d̪eo]
Verb
editpendeō (present infinitive pendēre, perfect active pependī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem (intransitive)
- to hang (down), to be suspended; hover, overhang, float
- Synonym: haereō
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.88-89:
- [...] pendent opera interrupta, minaeque
mūrōrum ingentēs aequātaque māchina caelō.- [...] Works are interrupted — [pieces] hang [in mid-air] — [for] the massive battlements of walls and machines level with the sky.
(Cranes, hoists, and scaffolds sit idle — construction of Carthage halts — because the queen has become so distracted: The work is both literally and figuratively “suspended.”)
- [...] Works are interrupted — [pieces] hang [in mid-air] — [for] the massive battlements of walls and machines level with the sky.
- [...] pendent opera interrupta, minaeque
- to hang about, loiter, tarry, linger
- to be put in public, exposed for sale
- Synonym: liceō
- to hang down; to be weak or without strength; sag, droop
- to weigh
- to have weight or value
- to rest or depend upon
- to hang upon a person's words; listen attentively to
- to be suspended, interrupted or discontinued
- to be ready to fall, hang suspended
- to be uncertain, perplexed or in suspense, waver
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of pendeō (second conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pendō, -ere (> Derivatives > (2) pendēre)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457
Further reading
edit- “pendeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pendeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pendeo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- pendeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) important results are often produced by trivial causes: ex parvis saepe magnarum rerum momenta pendent
- (ambiguous) to pay taxes: vectigalia, tributa pendere
- (ambiguous) to be punished by some one (on account of a thing): poenas alicui pendere (alicuius rei)
- (ambiguous) important results are often produced by trivial causes: ex parvis saepe magnarum rerum momenta pendent
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 988
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