pensill
English edit
Noun edit
pensill (plural pensills)
- Obsolete spelling of pencil
- Obsolete spelling of pencel
- 1483, Richard III, “Richard III. to Piers Courteis, Keeper of his Wardrobe”, in Letters of the Kings of England[2], published 1846, page 153:
- […] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]
Adjective edit
pensill
- Obsolete spelling of pensile
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 165:
- However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon [...] is of no slender antiquity [...].
Anagrams edit
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin penicillum, probably via Danish pensel.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pensill m (genitive singular pensils, nominative plural penslar)
Declension edit
declension of pensill