pensel
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
pensel (plural pensels)
- Obsolete form of pencel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pensel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Via German Pinsel and Old French pincel from Latin pēnicillum (“brush”), a diminutive of pēniculus, which is itself a diminutive of pēnis.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pensel c (singular definite penslen or (unofficial) penselen, plural indefinite pensler)
InflectionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “pensel” in Den Danske Ordbog
MalayEdit
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EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pensel (Jawi spelling ڤينسيل)
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Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From German Pinsel, from Old French pincel, from Latin peniculus
NounEdit
pensel m (definite singular penselen, indefinite plural pensler, definite plural penslene)
- a brush, paintbrush
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Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From German Pinsel, from Old French pincel, from Latin peniculus
NounEdit
pensel m (definite singular penselen, indefinite plural penslar, definite plural penslane)
- a brush, paintbrush
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “pensel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
pensel c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of pensel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | pensel | penseln | penslar | penslarna |
| Genitive | pensels | penselns | penslars | penslarnas |