pannicle
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French pannicle, and its source, Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).
Noun edit
pannicle (plural pannicles)
- (anatomy, zoology) A membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal.
- (obsolete, medicine) A pannus.
- (obsolete, rare) The skull.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- To him he turned, and with rigour fell / Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell, / That to the chin he cleft his head in twaine [...].
Anagrams edit
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).
Noun edit
pannicle f (plural pannicles)
- pannicle (membrane)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).
Noun edit
pannicle oblique singular, f (oblique plural pannicles, nominative singular pannicle, nominative plural pannicles)
- pannicle (membrane)