Borrowed fromLatinpensum.Doublet ofpeso.

pensum (pluralpensums)

1. (dated) Atask orimposition set as a school punishment.
   • 1955, Samuel Beckett, translated by Patrick Bowles,Molloy:

     You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of apensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.

Borrowed fromLatinpēnsum.

• IPA^(key): /pɛnsɔm/,[ˈpʰɛnsɔm]

pensum n (singular definitepensummet,plural indefinitepensa)

1. syllabus,curriculum
2. task,assignment
3. examinationrequirements

Borrowed fromLatinpēnsum.Doublet ofpoids, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃.sɔm/

• Audio:

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pensum m (pluralpensums)

1. (archaic)pensum (at school);lines (UK)
2. chore

• “pensum”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Neuter of past participle ofpendō.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈpen.sum/,[ˈpẽːs̠ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈpen.sum/,[ˈpɛnsum]

pēnsum n (genitivepēnsī);second declension

1. allotment,portion,weight (of wool measured out to a slave to spin in a day)
   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti2.743:

     lūmen ad exiguum famulae datapēnsa trahēbant

     By a dim light the handmaids were spinning their givenallotments of wool.

2. workquota, aday’swork
3. task,job,duty,assignment,engagement

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• pēnsō

Via Vulgar Latin*pēsum:

• “pensum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pensum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pensum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pensum inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pensum”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed fromLatinpēnsum.

• IPA^(key): /pɛnsʉm/,[ˈpʰɛnsʉm]

pensum n (definite singularpensumet,indefinite pluralpensaorpensumer,definite pluralpensaeneorpensumaorpensumene)

1. syllabus,curriculum
2. task,assignment
3. examinationrequirements

• “pensum” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pensum” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed fromLatinpēnsum.

pensum n (definite singularpensumet,indefinite pluralpensum,definite pluralpensuma)

1. syllabus,curriculum
2. task,assignment
3. examinationrequirements

• “pensum” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

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