HANGING Copy link • HANGING 1. s. Suspension, suspendium. For “to deserve hanging” [Vid: GALLOWS]. Hangings, tapes, etis, m. (τάπης), or Latinized, tapetum: ☞ “tapetes” of the ancients were generally shaggy, with figures worked in them, with which both the walls and the floor were covered. 2. adj., pensilis: pendulus (e.g., horti pensilis): flaccidus (e.g., aures): dependens (hanging down). Hanging ears, fiaccidae praegravantesque aures.