pendo
See also: pendò
Italian
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pendō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpen.doː/, [ˈpɛn.doː]
Verb
pendō (present infinitive pendere, perfect active pependī, supine pēnsum); third conjugation
- I suspend, hang
- I weigh, weigh out
- I pay
- 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
- Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
- If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.
- Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
- (figuratively) I consider, ponder
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- pendo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pendo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pendo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- pendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpendo/, [ˈpẽn̪d̪o]
Swahili
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛ.ⁿdɔ/
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