adjectivethird-declension two-termination adjective
pēnsilis
pēnsilis (neuter pēnsile)
Classical[ˈpẽː.sɪ.lɪs]Ecclesiastical[ˈpɛn.si.lis]
Meaning
- two terminationhanging (down), pendant, pensile
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pēnsilis | pēnsilis | pēnsile |
| genitive | pēnsilis | pēnsilis | pēnsilis |
| dative | pēnsilī | pēnsilī | pēnsilī |
| accusative | pēnsilem | pēnsilem | pēnsile |
| ablative | pēnsilī | pēnsilī | pēnsilī |
| vocative | pēnsilis | pēnsilis | pēnsile |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pēnsilēs | pēnsilēs | pēnsilia |
| genitive | pēnsilium | pēnsilium | pēnsilium |
| dative | pēnsilibus | pēnsilibus | pēnsilibus |
| accusative | pēnsilīs pēnsilēs | pēnsilīs pēnsilēs | pēnsilia |
| ablative | pēnsilibus | pēnsilibus | pēnsilibus |
| vocative | pēnsilēs | pēnsilēs | pēnsilia |
pensĭlis, e, adj. pendeo,
I. hanging, hanging down, pendent, pensile (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. pendulus).
I. Lit.:
restim volo mihi emere, qui me faciam pensilem, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 86: vehetur pensilibus plumis, i. e. in a bed, Juv. 1, 159: lychnuchi, Plin. 34, 3, 8, § 14: uva, which are hung up to be preserved during the winter, Hor. S. 2, 2, 121; cf. Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 15; in a double sense, alluding to the hanging of one's self, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 99: libertas pensilis, Plin. 19, 5, 24, § 70.—B. Subst.: pensĭlĭa, ĭum, n.
1. Fruit hung up to be preserved:
pensilia, ut uvae, mala, et sorba, Varr. R. R. 1, 68; 1, 59, 3.—2. (Sc. membra) = penis:
pulcre pensilibus peculiati, Auct. Priap. 53.—II. In archit., supported on arches, hanging, pensile:
fabrica, Col. 1, 6, 16: horreum, id. 12, 50, 3: ambulatio, Plin. 36, 13, 18, § 83: urbs, id. 36, 15, 24, § 104: horti, hanging gardens, id. 36, 14, 20, § 94; Curt. 5, 1, 32: balneae, shower-baths or vapor-baths, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168; Val. Max. 9, 1, 1; Macr. S. 2, 11, 3: tribus, on movable seats (in the theatre), Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 119.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pēnsilis e, adj.
PAND-, hanging, pendent, pensile : prumae, i. e. cushions of down , Iu.: uva, hung up to <*> , H.: horti, i. e. on arches , Cu.
Origins
From (transitive) pendō (“(originally) *to hang”, supine stem in pēns-) + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives), see also (intransitive) pendeō (“to hang”).
Descendants
- Italianpesolo
- Englishpensile
- Italianpensile
- Portuguesepênsil
- Franco-Provençalpeil
- Albanianpezull
- Proto-West Germanic*pēsal
- Proto-West Germanic*pīsilā
In English words that came into English from pēnsilis
- pensilepēnsilis