pendens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of pendeō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.dens/, [ˈpɛn̪d̪ẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.dens/, [ˈpɛn̪d̪ens]

Participle

pendēns (genitive pendentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. pending
2. depending
3. hanging down

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	pendēns			pendentēs	pendentia
genitive	pendentis			pendentium
dative	pendentī			pendentibus
accusative	pendentem	pendēns		pendentēs pendentīs	pendentia
ablative	pendente pendentī1			pendentibus
vocative	pendēns			pendentēs	pendentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Catalan: pendent
• English: pendant
• Galician: pendente
• Italian: pendente
• Portuguese: pendente
• Romanian: pendinte
• Spanish: pendiente

References

• “pendens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pendens 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)
• pendens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.