pendant

thumb|Amber pendants thumb|right|Pushpaka Thali - Wedding pendant used by Pushpaka Brahmins of [[Kerala, India]] thumb|Wedding pendant with 21 beads used by Saint Thomas Christians of India thumb|Spanish pendant at Victoria and Albert Museum. thumb|Indonesian pendants

A pendant is a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, which may be known as a "pendant necklace". A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. Its name stems from the Latin word pendere and Old French word pendr, both of which translate to "to hang down". In modern French, pendant is the gerund form of pendre ("to hang") and also means "during". The extent to which the design of a pendant can be incorporated into an overall necklace makes it not always accurate to treat them as separate items.