pendurar

• pandurar, porondar

From Old Galician-Portuguese pendurar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), either from Vulgar Latin pendulare from Latin pendulus (“hanging”); or rather from pendura, from Latin *penditūra,^[1] both from pendeō (“I hang”). Cognate with Portuguese pendurar.

• IPA^(key): /penduˈɾaɾ/

pendurar (first-person singular present penduro, first-person singular preterite pendurei, past participle pendurado)

1. to hang, dangle
   • 1435, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 31:

     seys cartas escriptas en purgamedeo de coyro, seelladas de seellos pendentes de plumo, pendurados por syrgo

     six charters, written in parchment, sealed with hanging lead seals, hung by silk [twines]

   Synonyms: colgar, dependurar, pender

• dependurar
• penduricallo
• pendurico
• porondeiro
• poronduxo

• pendulleiro
• pendullo
• pendura

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pendurar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pendur”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pendurar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pendurar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “pendurar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pendurar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• pindurar (obsolete or eye dialect)
• pendurá (apocopic)
• pindurá (eye dialect)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pendurar, pendorar, from Medieval Latin pendulāre, from Latin pendulus (“hanging”), from pendeō (“to hang”).

• Hyphenation: pen‧du‧rar

pendurar (first-person singular present penduro, first-person singular preterite pendurei, past participle pendurado)

1. to hang (cause (something) to be suspended)
2. (figurative) to give up or retire from a profession (followed by the name of a piece of clothing associated with the profession)
   • 2005, Jean Hatzfeld, Rosa Freire d’Aguiar, Uma Temporada de Facões, Editora Companhia das Letras, page 271:

     Largou o Exército para tornar-se policial da comuna, e pendurou o uniforme em 1992, quando foi mais ou menos afastado depois de um crime; desde então dedicou- se totalmente à lavoura.

     He quit the army to become a police officer in the city, and hung his uniform (=retired from the police) in 1992, when he was more-or-less suspended after a crime; since then he has dedicated himself entirely to agriculture.

3. to put on one's tab (informal credit account in a bar or shop)

• (hang): pender, suspender
• (to retire): aposentar-se

• (antonym(s) of “hang”): despendurar

• pêndulo
• pendurado