pendere
Italian (Fiorentino)
verb
Definitions
- to droop (from)
- to hang over one's head
- to lean, incline, slope, or tilt (from/towards/to)
- (figurative) to lean incline in opinion or desire (from/towards/to)
- to approach or tend (towards) a quality
- (intransitive) of a lawsuit, criminal case, etc. to be ongoing or pending
- (literary) to depend (on)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pendĕre, pendēre inherited from Proto-Italic *pendēō derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (pull, spin, stretch).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)pend-
Gloss
pull, spin, stretch
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- appendage English
- compendious English
- expenditure English
- impending English
- pend English
- pendant English
- pendent English
- postpend English
- prepend English
- propend English
- suspend English
- *pendicāre Latin
- circumpendeo Latin
- compendium Latin
- dependeo Latin
- dē- Latin
- expendere Latin
- expendo Latin
- expendō Latin
- impendeo Latin
- impendere Latin
- pendeo Latin
- pendere Latin
- pendēre Latin
- pendēre, pendeo, pendeō Latin
- pendĕre Latin
- ponderare Latin
- praependeo Latin
- propendeo Latin
- pēnsiōnem Latin
- stipendium Latin
- suspendo Latin
- spendieren German
- contropendenza Italian
- pendenza Italian
- pensionare Italian
- dépendre French
- penchant French
- pendable French
- pendaison French
- pendard French
- pendre French
- pente French
- rependre French
- pender Spanish, Castilian
- pendiente Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)pend- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pn̥d-éh₁ye-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pénd-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pénd-os Proto-Indo-European
- *pend- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes- Proto-Indo-European
- *fintô Proto-Germanic
- *spannō Proto-Germanic
- appenden Middle English
- *pędь Proto-Slavic
- pendre Old French
- pendi Esperanto
- pendre Middle French
- pender Old Portuguese
- *pendēō Proto-Italic
- pendâ Friulian
- pender Old Spanish
- piandar Dalmatian
- pende Louisiana Creole French