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penna

See also: Penna, pénna, and pénn-a

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin penna (“feather”). Doublet of panne.

Noun edit

penna (plural pennae)

  1. a contour feather

Anagrams edit

Aragonese edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin pinna.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

penna f (plural pennas)

  1. (Belsetán) large natural rock or stone

References edit

  • 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)

Breton edit

Adjective edit

penna

  1. main, principal

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From the Latin penna (“feather”).

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

penna (plural pennák)

  1. (archaic) quill pen, pen, quill (a feather used for writing)
    Synonyms: toll, írótoll

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative penna pennák
accusative pennát pennákat
dative pennának pennáknak
instrumental pennával pennákkal
causal-final pennáért pennákért
translative pennává pennákká
terminative pennáig pennákig
essive-formal pennaként pennákként
essive-modal — —
inessive pennában pennákban
superessive pennán pennákon
adessive pennánál pennáknál
illative pennába pennákba
sublative pennára pennákra
allative pennához pennákhoz
elative pennából pennákból
delative pennáról pennákról
ablative pennától pennáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		pennáé pennáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		pennáéi pennákéi
Possessive forms of penna
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pennám pennáim
2nd person sing. pennád pennáid
3rd person sing. pennája pennái
1st person plural pennánk pennáink
2nd person plural pennátok pennáitok
3rd person plural pennájuk pennáik

Further reading edit

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

Italian edit

 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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)

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Descendants edit

  • → Turkish: pena

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”), with pinna apparently representing a dialectal variant with pre-nasal raising.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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

Usage notes edit

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

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative penna pennae
Genitive pennae pennārum
Dative pennae pennīs
Accusative pennam pennās
Ablative pennā pennīs
Vocative penna pennae

Coordinate terms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

See also edit

References edit

Further reading edit

  • “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

Old Spanish edit

Noun edit

penna f (plural pennas)

  1. rock

Sassarese edit

 
una penna – a pen

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

penna f (plural penni)

  1. (historical) reed pen
  2. (historical) quill pen
  3. pen
    Hyponym: penna isthirogràfica
  4. (music) pick, plectrum
    Synonym: pennina

Derived terms edit

References edit

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

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Latin penna.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

penna c

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

Declension edit

Declension of penna 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative penna pennan pennor pennorna
Genitive pennas pennans pennors pennornas

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Further reading edit

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