pendo

pendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pender

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛn.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛndo
• Hyphenation: pèn‧do

pendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pendere

From Proto-Italic *pendō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”). Related to pendeō, pondus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.doː/, [ˈpɛn̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.do/, [ˈpɛn̪d̪o]

pendō (present infinitive pendere, perfect active pependī, supine pēnsum); third conjugation

1. to weigh, weigh out

   Synonym: ponderō

2. to pay

   Synonyms: ērogō, dissolvo, persolvo, absolvo, luo, solvo

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:

     Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.

     If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.

3. (figuratively) to consider, ponder

   Synonyms: perpendō, reflectō, ponderō, putō, cōnsīderō, dēlīberō, reputō, cōnsulō, replicō, dubitō, cōnsultō, circumspiciō, videō, trahō, versō

• pendeō
• pondus

• Galician: pender
• Portuguese: pender
• Sicilian: pènniri
• Spanish: pender
• Vulgar Latin: *pendicāre (see there for further descendants)

• “pendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pendo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) important results are often produced by trivial causes: ex parvis saepe magnarum rerum momenta pendent
    
  • (ambiguous) to pay taxes: vectigalia, tributa pendere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be punished by some one (on account of a thing): poenas alicui pendere (alicuius rei)
    

pendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pender

• IPA^(key): /ˈpendo/ [ˈpẽn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -endo
• Syllabification: pen‧do

pendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pender

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ⁿdɔ/

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pendo (ma class, plural mapendo)

1. Alternative form of upendo