# pendent
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpɛndənt/
* Homophone: pendant

### Adjective

pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)
* 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.
* Pending (in various senses).
* (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.
* (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.
* (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
* (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.

#### Derived terms

* pendent jurisdiction
* pendently

#### Related terms

* pendentive

#### Translations
### Noun

pendent (plural pendents)
* Alternative spelling of pendant

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “pendent”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pendentem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [pənˈden]
* IPA: (Balearic) [pənˈdent]
* IPA: (Valencia) [penˈdent]

### Adjective

pendent m or f (masculine and feminine plural pendents)
* pending, unresolved; waiting on
* sloped, sloping, inclined

### Noun

pendent m (plural pendents)
* slope, incline

### Further reading

* “pendent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɑ̃d/
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

### Verb

pendent
* third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of pendre

## Latin
### Verb

pendent
* third-person plural future active indicative of pendō
* third-person plural present active indicative of pendeō

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Preposition

pendent
* during
    Synonym: durant

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French pendant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛn.dɛnt/
* Rhymes: -ɛndɛnt
* Syllabification: pen‧dent

### Noun

pendent m inan
* baldric

#### Declension
### Further reading

* pendent in Polish dictionaries at PWN