pendent

Meanings

1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
2. Pending (in various senses).
3. Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
4. Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
5. Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
6. Projecting over something; overhanging.

1. Alternative spelling of pendant.

Etymology

From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.