The corpus record — Latin

pendulus

pendulus · adj

hanging

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pendŭlus — Lewis & Short

pendŭlus, a, um, adj.pendeo,

I hanging, hanging down, pendent (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: pensilis).

I Lit.: collum, Hor. C. 3, 27, 59: libra, Ov. F. 4, 386: palearia, id. M. 7, 117: tela, id. H. 1, 10: genae (ebrii), Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 142.—

B Transf., of places, overhanging, Mart. 13, 112: loca et macriora, Col. 2, 18.—Of persons, hanging, swinging: putator arbustis, Col. 10, 229.—In mal. part.: Venus, App. M. 2, p. 122 med.—

II Trop., doubtful, uncertain, hesitating: neu fluitem dubiae spe pendulus horae, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 110; Hadrian. ap. Vop. Saturn. 8.

Where it came from

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