pensileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From classical Latin pēnsilis, from the past participle stem of pendere (“to hang”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈpɛnsaɪl/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpensɑel/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈpensaɪl/, [ˈpensɑe̯l]

形容詞

pensile (comparative more pensile, superlative most pensile)

1. Hanging down, suspended.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 165:

     However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]

派生語

アナグラム

• Lepines, espinel, sleep in, sleep-in