pondus
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See also: pondes
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin pondus (“a weight”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑndəs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒndəs/
- Rhymes: (General American) -ɑndəs
Noun
[edit]pondus
- (historical) An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, perhaps equal to 3 cloves.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 208:
- The pondus of wool at Alton Barnes and Stert is three cloves or 21 pounds.
Related terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Participle
[edit]pondus m pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *pondos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-os, from *(s)pend-. Related to pendō, pendeō.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn̪d̪us]
Noun
[edit]pondus n (genitive ponderis); third declension
- weight
- weight of a pound
- heaviness, weight of a body
- load, burden
- quantity, number, multitude
- consequence, importance
- Synonyms: importantia, gravitās, mōmentum, opportūnitās
- (of character) firmness, constancy
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pondus | pondera |
| genitive | ponderis | ponderum |
| dative | ponderī | ponderibus |
| accusative | pondus | pondera |
| ablative | pondere | ponderibus |
| vocative | pondus | pondera |
Synonyms
[edit]- (firmness, constancy): cōnstantia, firmitās, firmitūdō
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Proto-Germanic: *pundą (see there for further descendants)
- → Irish: poinn, puinn
- → Russian: пуд (pud)
- → Romanian: pondere
- → Welsh: pwn
References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pendō, -ere (> Derivatives > (2) > pondus, -eris)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457
Further reading
[edit]- “pondus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pondus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pondus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pondus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
- gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
- “pondus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Norwegian Bokmål
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