Play with IDEAS in Words


Ponder
Pensive
Pending
Penis
Penalty
Weight
Weigh

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The question today concerns 
PENSIVE which stems from Latin
PENDERE for TO HANG and is within the scope of
PENTERALE   INNER MOST
PENETRO     TO PIERCE
PENDERE     TO HANG
PENIS       A TAIL or MAN'S YARD
PENSO       TO PONDER ... 

Frankly speaking
PENSIVE has 
beMUSED me but neither the
MUSES nor resorting to 
MUSIC have helped to find an 
AMUSING way to show how
PENSIVE 
PENDENT 
PENITENT or
PENIS are linked - Instead, 
PENA or in Latin
POENA has imposed upon this explanation the  
PENALTY that it will be based on 
LUSTerless THOUGHTS unless you note we mention 
EROS as an ending to these 
MUSINGS. 

So! to put it plainly, 
PENSIVE approaches 
PAIN and the Godess
POENA which with NEMESIS is a cause to become
PENSIVE or feel a weight on the mind
- it represents more than plain thinking or
MEDITATING like 
MEDICAL consultants or
MEDIATORS do - instead
PENSIVE has to do with ideas found in Spanish 
PENSAR PENSAMIENTO PESO which link 
THINKING and WEIGH with WEIGHT taken from Latin
PENSANS for WEIGHING and 
PENSILIS for HANGING in the air like 
PENDANT or
PENIS

MEDICAL POETS and HUMANISTS know that grief or
PENURY 	includes 
PENSIVE thinking - The Romans linked such with 
PENIA or the Goddess of 
SORROW who as the mother of 
EROS let it be known that unsatiable 
LUST is one of many cardinal
PENALTIES.

Enough for PENSIVE but ...
you may explore:		 

> A 2000 year old classic poem by Lucretius 
  applicable to modern people who worship 
  materialistic affluence and get
  "... a weight on their mind ...".

> An image of a pensive man by A. Rodin.

> For unabridged roots and ideas as given in Pandora's Word Box, explore:
Pensive ... Pendant ... Penis ...
Pain ... Algor ... Algesia ... 
Thought ... Think ... Weigh ... Weight ...

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W. Wertelecki, M.D.
Copyright 1994, 1997
All rights reserved

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February 12, 2001