pendule
English
Etymology
Noun
pendule (plural pendules)
- (obsolete) A pendulum.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pendule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Etymology
From Middle French funependule, borrowed from Latin funependulus, from the ablative of funis + pendulus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɑ̃.dyl/
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Further reading
- “pendule” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Latin
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