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語源

From Anglo-Norman pendaunt, Middle French pendant, noun use of adjective.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɛnd(ə)nt/, [ˈpɛndn̩t]
  • • (pin–pen merger) IPA: /ˈpɪ̟nd(ə)nt/, [ˈpɪ̟ndn̩t]
• (nautical) IPA: /ˈpɛnənt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA: /ˈpɪ̟nənt/
• 韻: -ɛndənt
• ハイフネーション: pen‧dant
• Homophone: pendent

名詞

pendant (plural pendants)

1. (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
3. The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
4. (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
5. (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.

   One vase is the pendant to the other vase.

6. (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
7. A lamp hanging from the roof.
8. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
9. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
10. (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
    • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology:

      Many […] have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.

11. (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th–17th c.]
12. (obsolete) A pendulum.
    • 1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC:

      a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards

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Further reading

• Pendant in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.