pensum
English
Noun
pensum (plural pensums)
- (dated) A task or imposition set as a school punishment.
- 1955, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Bowles (translator), Molloy:
- You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.
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Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛnsɔm/, [ˈpʰɛnsɔm]
Inflection
Declension of pensum
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | pensum | pensummet | pensa | pensaene |
genitive | pensums | pensummets | pensas | pensaenes |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛ̃.sɔm/
Further reading
- “pensum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
Neuter of past participle of pendō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpen.sum/, [ˈpẽː.sʊ̃]
Noun
pēnsum n (genitive pēnsī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pēnsum | pēnsa |
Genitive | pēnsī | pēnsōrum |
Dative | pēnsō | pēnsīs |
Accusative | pēnsum | pēnsa |
Ablative | pēnsō | pēnsīs |
Vocative | pēnsum | pēnsa |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- pensum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pensum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pensum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- pensum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- pensum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛnsɔm/, [ˈpʰɛnsɔm]
Norwegian Nynorsk
References
- “pensum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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