pendere

From Late Latin pendĕre (conjugation confused with or altered by pendere (“to suspend, hang”)) for Latin pendēre (“to hang down, to be suspended”), from Proto-Italic *pendēō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛn.de.re/
• Rhymes: -ɛndere
• Hyphenation: pèn‧de‧re

pèndere (first-person singular present pèndo, first-person singular past historic pendétti or (traditional) pendètti, past participle (rare) pendùto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)

1. to droop [with da ‘from’]
2. to hang [with su ‘over one's head’]

   una minaccia pende su di noi

   a threat hangs over our heads

3. to lean, to incline, to slope, to tilt [with da una parte ‘to one side’ or a ‘to’ or verso ‘towards’]

   il terreno pende leggermente a sinistra

   the ground slopes slightly to the left

4. (figurative, by extension) to lean (incline in opinion or desire) [with dalla parte di ‘in favor of’ or a ‘to’ or verso ‘towards’]

   pendo verso il no ― I'm leaning towards no

   pendere dalla parte di John ― to lean in favor of John

5. to approach or tend [with a ‘towards a quality’]

   un rosso che pende al rosa

   a red that tends towards a pink

6. (law) to be ongoing or pending (of a lawsuit, criminal case, etc.)

   la vertenza pende da più di un anno

   the lawsuit has been ongoing for over a year

7. (literary) to depend [with da ‘on’]

• appendere
• pendaglio
• pendente
• pendenza
• pendio
• pendolare
• pendolo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• pendere: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.de.re/, [ˈpɛn̪d̪ɛrɛ]
• pendere: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.de.re/, [ˈpɛn̪d̪ere]
• pendēre: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /penˈdeː.re/, [pɛn̪ˈd̪eːrɛ]
• pendēre: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /penˈde.re/, [pen̪ˈd̪ɛːre]

pendere

1. inflection of pendō (“to weigh out, to pay, to pay out”):
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

pendēre

1. second-person singular future passive indicative of pendō

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /penˈdeː.re/, [pɛn̪ˈd̪eːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /penˈde.re/, [pen̪ˈd̪ɛːre]

pendēre

1. present active infinitive of pendeō (“to hang down, to depend”)