pender

Meaning

  1. (intransitive, transitive) to hang or be suspended (from)
  2. (intransitive, transitive) to put or be inclined or drooping
  3. (transitive) to have a vocation, propensity (for)
  4. (transitive) to be subject to; depend on
  5. (transitive) to be favorable (to); lean (towards)
  6. (transitive) to be imminent (about)
  7. (transitive) to be willing
  8. (transitive) to wilt and sag
  9. (intransitive) to be about to fall
  10. (intransitive) to be resolved
  11. (intransitive) to be threatened with ruin
  12. (intransitive) to fall inert, hang

Synonyms

estar pendente

estar dependurado

estar pendurado

Frequency

41k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pẽˈde(ʁ)/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pender, from Latin pendēre, from Proto-Italic *pendēō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”).

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