pendent

Meanings

Adjective

• Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
• Pending in various senses.
• Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
• Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
• Projecting over something; overhanging.

Noun

• Alternate spelling of pendant

Origin

• From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere. Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.