pendulum

English

Etymology

Neuter of Latin pendulus (“hanging”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnd͡ʒələm/
US (some regions): IPA^(key): /ˈpɪnd͡ʒələm/
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Noun

pendulum (plural pendulums or pendula) (See usage notes.)

A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.

Usage notes

The plural form pendula is significantly rarer than pendulums; see etymology at pendula for details. However, pendula is occasionally used in physics.

Related terms

Translations

body suspended from a fixed support

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: ճոճանակ (hy) (čočanak)
Basque: pendulu
Catalan: pèndol m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鐘擺 (zh), 钟摆 (zh) (zhōngbǎi), 擺 (zh) (bǎi), 摆 (zh) (bǎi), 擺鐘 (zh), 摆钟 (zh) (bǎizhōng)
Czech: kyvadlo (cs) n
Dutch: slinger (nl) c
Esperanto: pendolo
Finnish: heiluri (fi)
French: pendule (fr) m
Galician: péndulo m
Georgian: ქანქარა (kankara)
German: Pendel (de) n
Greek: εκκρεμές (el) n (ekkremés)
Hungarian: inga (hu)
Icelandic: pendúll m, dingull m, hengill m, kólfur (is) m
Ido: pendulo (io)

Italian: pendolo (it) m
Japanese: 振り子 (ふりこ, furiko)
Macedonian: нишало n (nišalo)
Malay: bandul
Maori: tārere
Norwegian: pendel (no) m
Polish: wahadło (pl) n
Portuguese: pêndulo (pt) m
Romanian: pendul (ro) n
Russian: ма́ятник (ru) m (májatnik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: клатно n

Roman: klatno (sh) n
Slovak: kyvadlo n
Spanish: péndulo m
Swedish: pendel (sv) c
Turkish: sarkaç (tr), rakkas (tr), pandül (tr)
Volapük: pendül (vo)

Anagrams

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Latin

Adjective

pendulum

nominative neuter singular of pendulus
accusative masculine singular of pendulus
accusative neuter singular of pendulus
vocative neuter singular of pendulus

References

pendulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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