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What does pendula mean?
plural of pendulum
Where does pendula come from?
From pendulum, by analogy with Latin second declension nouns, such as bacterium/bacteria, though Latin pendulum is the neuter singular form of the adjective pendulus, whose neuter plural is pendula.

How to pronounce pendula

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