penna

From Latin penna (“feather”). Doublet of panne, pen, and pinna.

penna (plural pennae)

1. a contour feather

• panne

Inherited from Latin pinna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpenna/
• Syllabification: pen‧na
• Rhymes: -enna

penna f (plural pennas)

1. (Belsetán) large natural rock or stone

• Badia I Margarit, Antonio. 1950. El habla del Valle de Bielsa. Barcelona: Instituto de Estudios Pirenaicos. 87.
• “peña”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

penna

1. main, principal

From the Latin penna (“feather”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛnːɒ]
• Hyphenation: pen‧na
• Rhymes: -nɒ

penna (plural pennák)

1. (archaic) quill pen, pen, quill (a feather used for writing)

   Synonyms: toll, írótoll

• penna in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Latin penna and pinna, from Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpen.na/
• Rhymes: -enna
• Hyphenation: pén‧na

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penna f (plural penne)

1. feather
2. pen

   Il corpo della penna è sigillato e non può essere aperto senza danneggiare l'elettronica.

   The pen body is sealed and cannot be opened without damaging the electronics.

3. (cooking, in the plural) penne (type of pasta)

• → Turkish: pena

• panne

• pinna

From Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”),^[1] from *peth₂- (“to fly”), with pinna apparently representing a dialectal variant with pre-nasal raising. See also pēnis (“tail, penis”), which penna may have been conflated semantically with.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛn.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛn.na]

penna f (genitive pennae); first declension

1. wing (of natural or supernatural creatures)
   1. (figuratively) wing as a symbol of speed
2. feather, especially a flight-feather; pinion
3. quill pen

• Unlike its variant pinna, is not found in the meanings "fin" or "raised part of a parapet".

First-declension noun.

• (wing) āla
• (feather) plūma, plūmula
• (pen) calamus

• pterus

• “penna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “penna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "penna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• penna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “penna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “penna” on page 1459 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “pinna” on page 1520 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

penna f (plural pennas)

1. rock

penna f (plural pennas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pena.
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Festa [Celebration]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 114:

     O patrão realizava com penna e tinta calculos incomprehensiveis.

     With a quill and ink, his employer made incomprehensible calculations.

From Latin penna, from Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), derived from the root *peth₂- (“to fly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpenna/

penna f (plural penni)

1. (historical) reed pen
2. (historical) quill pen
3. pen

   Hyponym: penna isthirogràfica

4. (music) pick, plectrum

   Synonym: pennina

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

From Latin penna.

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penna c

1. a contour feather, a penna
2. a quill, a feather used for writing
3. a pen
4. a pencil

   vässa en penna med en pennvässare

   sharpen a pencil with a pencil sharpener

• bläck (“ink”)
• pennvässare (“pencil sharpener”)
• rita (“draw”)
• stift (“lead”)
• teckna
• vässa (“sharpen”)

• penna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• penna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• penna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)