pendere
- (intransitive) to droop
- (intransitive) to hang
- (intransitive) to lean, to incline, to slope, to tilt
- (broadly, figuratively, intransitive) to lean (incline in opinion or desire)
- (intransitive) to approach or tend
- (intransitive) to be ongoing or pending (of a lawsuit, criminal case, etc.)
- (intransitive, literary) to depend
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pèn‧de‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɛn.de.re/
Etymology
From Late Latin pendĕre (conjugation confused with or altered by pendere (“to suspend, hang”)) for Latin pendēre (“to hang down, to be suspended”), from Proto-Italic *pendēō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”).
essere in pendenza
essere inclinato
essere sospeso
essere appeso
pènne
essere imminente
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