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pend en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /pɪnd/ (pin-pen-merger)
  • /pɛnd/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.

Meanings

  1. (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.

Forms

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pends Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

alley

Translations (2)

pl sklepione przejście (a large vaulted passageway) · fi holvikäytävä (a large vaulted passageway)

pend en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /pɪnd/ (pin-pen-merger)
  • /pɛnd/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) To arch over (something); to vault.
  3. (obsolete) To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
    • pending upon certain powerful motives 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

Forms

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pends Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pending Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pended Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pended Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

independence · pinner · pinder · append

pend en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /pɪnd/ (pin-pen-merger)
  • /pɛnd/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Compare pen (“to shut in”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.
    • soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron 1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegms, translation of original by Erasmus:

Forms

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pending Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pended Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pended Tense=Past lexicographic
pends Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

pend en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /pɪnd/ (pin-pen-merger)
  • /pɛnd/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Back-formation from pending.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
    • The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis. 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 817:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pended Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pended Tense=Past lexicographic
pending Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pends Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

pend en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • /pɪnd/ (pin-pen-merger)
  • /pɛnd/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (India, uncountable) oil cake