pensile

• pensill (obsolete)

From classical Latin pēnsilis, from the past participle stem of pendere (“to hang”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnsaɪl/

pensile (comparative more pensile, superlative most pensile)

1. Hanging down, suspended.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 165)

     However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]

• Lepines, espinel, sleep in, sleep-in

From Latin pēnsilis (“hanging”). Doublet of pesolo. Compare Portuguese pênsil.

• IPA^(key): /penˈsi.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛnsile

pensile (masculine and feminine plural pensili)

1. hanging, suspended

• giardino pensile
• pensilina

pensile m (plural pensili)

1. wall cabinet; wall cupboard

pēnsile

1. nominative neuter singular of pēnsilis
2. accusative neuter singular of pēnsilis
3. vocative neuter singular of pēnsilis