English

Noun

pondus

1. 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

French

Verb

pondus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of pondre

Anagrams

• dupons

Latin

Etymology

From pendō ‎(“to weigh; suspend, hang; pay”).

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

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Synonyms

• (firmness, constancy): cōnstantia, firmitās, firmitūdō

Related terms

Descendants

• Dutch: pond
• English: pound
• German: Pfund
• Russian: пуд ‎(pud)
• Swedish: pund
• Romanian: pondere

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pondus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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