pondus

See also: pondes

English

Noun

pondus

  1. (historical) An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, perhaps equal to 3 cloves.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208:
      The pondus of wool at Alton Barnes and Stert is three cloves or 21 pounds.

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French

Verb

pondus

  1. masculine plural of the past participle of pondre

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pondos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-os, from *(s)pend-. Cognate with Latin pendō, pendeō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn.dʊs]

Noun

pondus n (genitive ponderis); third declension

  1. weight
  2. weight of a pound
  3. heaviness, weight of a body
  4. load, burden
  5. quantity, number, multitude
  6. consequence, importance
  7. (of character) firmness, constancy

Declension

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pondus pondera
Genitive ponderis ponderum
Dative ponderī ponderibus
Accusative pondus pondera
Ablative pondere ponderibus
Vocative pondus pondera

Synonyms

Descendants

See also

  • Finnish: pontus (overweight person) (colloquial)

References

  • pondus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pondus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pondus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • pondus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
  • pondus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpʰɔndʉs]

Noun

pondus

  1. gravity, authority, weightfulness
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