pondus

Noun

pondus

1. (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, p. 208:

     The pondus of wool at Alton Barnes and Stert is three cloves or 21 pounds.

Anagrams

• Pounds, pounds

Verb

pondus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of pondre

Anagrams

• dupons

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pondos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-os, from *(s)pend-. Cognate with Latin pendō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.dus/, [ˈpɔn.dʊs]

Noun

pondus n (genitive ponderis); third declension

1. weight
2. weight of a pound
3. heaviness, weight of a body
4. load, burden
5. quantity, number, multitude
6. consequence, importance
7. (of character) firmness, constancy

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• pondus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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