overwordExplorer
PORTUGUESE · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

pender.

to hang or be suspended (from)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/pẽˈde(ʁ)/Brazil[pẽˈde(h)]Brazil/pẽˈde(ɾ)/São-Paulo/pẽˈde(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to hang or be suspended (from)

    intransitive · transitive
  2. to put or be inclined or drooping

    intransitive · transitive
  3. to have a vocation, propensity (for)

    transitive
  4. to be subject to; depend on

    transitive
  5. to be favorable (to); lean (towards)

    transitive
  6. to be imminent (about)

    transitive
  7. to be willing

    transitive
  8. to wilt and sag

    transitive
  9. to be about to fall

    intransitive
  10. to be resolved

    intransitive
  11. to be threatened with ruin

    intransitive
  12. to fall inert, hang

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pender, from Latin pendēre, from Proto-Italic *pendēō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”).

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

pender has 6 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

pender studiopender workshello, pender

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.