depend

Meaning

Verb

• To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
• To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
• To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
• To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
• To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.

Origin

• From Middle English dependen, from Old French dependre and Latin dependeō, from Latin dē- + pendeō.