pend

Meanings

Verb

• To hang down; to cause something to hang down
• To arch over (something); to vault.
• To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
• To pen; to confine.
• To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).

Noun

• An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
• oil cake

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French pendre ("to hang"), from Late Latin, from Latin pendēre.
• Compare pen.
• Back-formation from pending.