PENSIVE

PRONUNCIATION: (PEN-siv)

MEANING: adjective: Sadly thoughtful; wistful.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French pensif (pensive), from penser (to think), from Latin pensare (ponder), frequentative of pendere (to weigh). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which also gave us pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, penthouse, depend, spontaneous, vilipend, pendulous, ponderous, filipendulous, equipoise, prepend, and perpend. Earliest documented use: 1393.
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PENSAVE - a 529 plan headquartered in Pittsburgh (see also PENGIVE)

SPENSIVE - costly (see also XPENSIVE)

PEN,SIRE - what the King uses to sign his edicts