Other forms: pendants
A pendant is an ornament that hangs from a chain around the neck. A silver pendant, a pendant on a chain, wear a pendant.
It hangs, which is the whole distinction from a brooch or a bead. A pendant light is a ceiling light on a cord, which is the same idea in a room. Note the spelling: pendant with an a is the ornament and pendent with an e is the adjective meaning hanging, which almost nobody uses; and that pendant, pendulum, depend and suspend all come from the Latin for hanging.
1nounpendantAn ornament that hangs from a chain around the neck.
“She wore a silver pendant in the shape of a heart.”
pendant is a hanging ornament.
Anglo-Norman pendaunt is the present participle of pendre, to hang, from Latin pendere. Depend means to hang from, and a pendulum is simply a hanging thing — the whole family is one verb.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)pend-
Anglo-Norman
pendaunt
English, today
pendant
From Anglo-Norman pendaunt, Middle French - pendant, noun use of adjective.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA