# pendant
## English
### Alternative forms

* pendaunt (obsolete)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈpɛnd(ə)nt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (nautical) IPA: /ˈpɛnənt/
* Rhymes: -ɛndənt
* Homophone: pendent

### Noun

pendant (plural pendants)
* (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
* A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
* The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
* (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
* (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
    One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
* (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
* A lamp hanging from the roof.
* An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
* A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
* (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.
* (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th–17th c.]
* (obsolete) A pendulum.
** 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards

#### Derived terms

* pendant light

#### Related terms

* penchant
* pendent
* pennant
* to depend
* to impend
* to pend

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “pendant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Pendant”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

### Further reading

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

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /panɡdanɡ/, [pʰɑŋˈd̥ɑŋ]

### Noun

pendant c (singular definite pendanten, plural indefinite pendanter)
* counterpart
* match
* fellow
* companion

#### Synonyms

* modstykke

### Further reading

* “pendant” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɑ̃.dɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: pendants

### Adjective

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

### Noun

pendant m (plural pendants)
* stone that dangles on earrings
* match, counterpart

#### Descendants

* → Danish: pendant
* → German: Pendant
* → Hungarian: pandan
* → Italian: pendant
* → Polish: pendent
* → Portuguese: pandã

### Preposition

pendant
* during, throughout, for the duration of

#### Derived terms

* pendant que

### Participle

pendant
* present participle of pendre

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French pendant. Doublet of pendente.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /panˈdan/
* Rhymes: -an

### Noun

pendant m (invariable)
* match (matching item)
* pendant (dangling earring)

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Verb

pendant
* third-person plural present active subjunctive of pendō

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French pendant.

### Noun

pendant n (plural pendante)
* match, counterpart

#### Declension
### References

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

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛndant/

### Adjective

pendant (feminine singular pendant, plural pendant, not comparable)
* definite (free from any doubt)
* positive

#### Derived terms

* yn bendant (“definitely”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.