pensum

Borrowed from Latin pensum. Doublet of peso.

pensum (plural pensums)

1. (dated) A task or imposition set as a school punishment.
   • 1955, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Bowles (translator), Molloy:

     You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.

Borrowed from Latin pēnsum.

• IPA^(key): /pɛnsɔm/, [ˈpʰɛnsɔm]

pensum n (singular definite pensummet, plural indefinite pensa)

1. syllabus, curriculum
2. task, assignment
3. examination requirements

Borrowed from Latin pēnsum. Doublet of poids, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃.sɔm/

pensum m (plural pensums)

1. (archaic) punishment (at school); lines (UK)
2. chore

• “pensum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Neuter of past participle of pendō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.sum/, [ˈpẽː.sʊ̃]

pēnsum n (genitive pēnsī); second declension

1. weight (of wool to be handed over as part of daily work)
2. task, job, duty

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• pēnsō

• pensum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pensum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pensum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pensum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pensum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from Latin pēnsum.

• IPA^(key): /pɛnsɔm/, [ˈpʰɛnsɔm]

pensum n (definite singular pensumet, indefinite plural pensa or pensumer, definite plural pensaene or pensuma or pensumene)

1. syllabus, curriculum
2. task, assignment
3. examination requirements

• “pensum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pensum” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from Latin pēnsum.

pensum n (definite singular pensumet, indefinite plural pensum, definite plural pensuma)

1. syllabus, curriculum
2. task, assignment
3. examination requirements

• “pensum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.