pendent
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛndənt/
The English word “pendent” has 6 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
- Pending (in various senses).
- 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.
- Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
- Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
- Projecting over something; overhanging.
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.
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