suspendo

sub- +‎ pendo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊsˈpɛn.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [susˈpɛn̪.d̪o]

suspendō (present infinitive suspendere, perfect active suspendī, supine suspēnsum); third conjugation

1. to hang up or suspend

   Synonym: pendō

2. to hang a person
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 253–255:

     PAMPHILUS: Praeteriēns modo / mī apud forum: “Uxor tibi dūcendast, Pamphile, hodiē!,” inquit. “Parā, abi domum.” Id mihi vīsust dīcere, “Abi citō ac suspende tē!”

     PAMPHILUS: Just now, as I was passing by, [father told] me at the forum: “You must lead a wife in marriage, Pamphilus — today!” he said. “Go home, get ready.” Which seemed to me as if he were saying, “Go away, quickly — and hang yourself!”

3. (passive voice) to depend, rest

   Synonym: cōnsistō

• suspēnsus
• suspēnsiō

• “suspendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “suspendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “suspendo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

suspendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of suspender

suspendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of suspender