pender
Meaning
- (intransitive, transitive) to hang or be suspended (from)
- (intransitive, transitive) to put or be inclined or drooping
- (transitive) to have a vocation, propensity (for)
- (transitive) to be subject to; depend on
- (transitive) to be favorable (to); lean (towards)
- (transitive) to be imminent (about)
- (transitive) to be willing
- (transitive) to wilt and sag
- (intransitive) to be about to fall
- (intransitive) to be resolved
- (intransitive) to be threatened with ruin
- (intransitive) to fall inert, hang
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
Frequency
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”).
Notes
Sign in to write sticky notes
Start learning Portuguese with learnfeliz.
Practice speaking and memorizing "pender" and many other words and sentences in Portuguese.