penna

See also: Penna, pénna, and pénn-a

English

Etymology

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

Noun

penna (plural pennae)

1. a contour feather

Anagrams

• panne

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pinna.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

penna f (plural pennas)

1. (Belsetán) large natural rock or stone

References

• 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

Adjective

penna

1. main, principal

Hungarian

Etymology

From the Latin penna (“feather”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

penna (plural pennák)

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

   Synonyms: toll, írótoll

Declension

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

• 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

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Noun

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)

Related terms

• pennacchiera
• pennacchio
• pennaiolo
• pennata
• pennello
• penniforme
• pennino
• penne rigate
• penne lisce

Descendants

• → Turkish: pena

Anagrams

• panne

Latin

Alternative forms

• pinna

Etymology

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.na/, [ˈpɛnːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.na/, [ˈpɛnːä]

Noun

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

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

Declension

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

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

Derived terms

• bipennis
• dēpennātus
• pennescō
• pennifer
• penniger
• pennipotens
• pennipēs
• pennor
• pennula
• pennārium
• pennātulus
• pennātus
• pinnirapus

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: pendë
• Aromanian: peanã
• Asturian: peña
• Catalan: penya
• → Danish: pen
• Old French: penne
  • French: penne
  • → Middle English: penne
    • English: pen
  • → Welsh: pìn
• Friulian: pene
• → Icelandic: penni
• → Old Irish: penn
  • Irish: peann
  • Manx: penn
  • Scottish Gaelic: peann
• Italian: penna
• Megleno-Romanian: peană
• → Norwegian: penn
• Old Galician-Portuguese: pena
  • Galician: pena
  • Portuguese: pena
• Romanian: pană
• Romansch: penna
• Sardinian: pinna
• Spanish: peña
• Sicilian: pinna
• → Swedish: penna
• Venetian: pena
• Walloon: pene

See also

• pterus

References

• “penna” on page 1459 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “pinna” on page 1520 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “penna”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 458

Further reading

• “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

Noun

penna f (plural pennas)

1. rock

Sassarese

una penna – a pen

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpenna/

Noun

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

• pennina
• pinneri

 

References

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin penna.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

penna c

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

Declension

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

Related terms

• blyertspenna
• bläckpenna
• gåspenna
• kulspetspenna
• pennal
• pennfodral
• pennkniv
• pennskaft
• pennskrin
• penntroll
• pennvässare
• reservoarpenna
• stiftpenna
• stålpenna
• vingpenna

Further reading

• penna in Svensk ordbok.