pendant

• pendaunt (obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman pendaunt,[1] Middle French pendant, noun use of adjective.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnd(ə)nt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛndənt
• Homophone: pendent

pendant (plural pendants)

1. (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
3. The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
4. (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
5. (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.

   One vase is the pendant to the other vase.

6. (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended[2].
7. A lamp hanging from the roof.
8. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
9. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
10. (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
    • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology:

      Many […] have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.

11. (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th–17th c.]
12. (obsolete) A pendulum.
    • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises

      a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards

• Pendant in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

From French pendant (“counterpart”), from pendre (“to hang”), from Latin pendere (“to hang”).

• IPA^(key): /panɡdanɡ/, [pʰɑŋˈd̥ɑŋ]

pendant c (singular definite pendanten, plural indefinite pendanter)

1. counterpart
2. match
3. fellow
4. companion

• modstykke

• “pendant” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.dɑ̃/

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• Homophone: pendants

pendant (feminine pendante, masculine plural pendants, feminine plural pendantes)

1. hanging

pendant m (plural pendants)

1. stone that dangles on earrings
2. match, counterpart

• → Danish: pendant
• → German: Pendant
• → Hungarian: pandan
• → Italian: pendant
• → Polish: pendent

pendant

1. during, throughout, for the duration of

• pendant que

pendant

1. present participle of pendre

• “pendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French pendant. Doublet of pendente.

• IPA^(key): /panˈdan/
• Rhymes: -an

pendant m (invariable)

1. match (matching item)
2. pendant (dangling earing)

• pendant in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

pendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of pendō

Borrowed from French pendant.

pendant n (plural pendante)

1. match, counterpart

• pendant in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛndant/

pendant (feminine singular pendant, plural pendant, not comparable)

1. definite (free from any doubt)
2. positive

• yn bendant (“definitely”)