pannus

See also: Pannus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pannus (“cloth”). Doublet of pagne, pan, and pane.

Noun

pannus (plural panni or pannuses)

1. A hanging flap of skin or other tissue, especially one covering the cornea (in trachoma) or cartilage (in rheumatoid arthritis).
2. (meteorology) A type of accessory cloud, looking like shreds either attached to, or separated from, the main cloud formation; mainly associated with nimbostratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus.
3. (medicine) A tent for a wound.
4. (medicine) A birthmark on the skin.

Synonyms

• (cloud): scud

Anagrams

• sannup, unsnap

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌰 (fana, “piece of cloth”), Old English fana (“flag”), English fane.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.nus/, [ˈpänːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.nus/, [ˈpänːus]

Noun

pannus m (genitive pannī); second declension

1. cloth
2. rag
3. garment

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pannus	pannī
Genitive	pannī	pannōrum
Dative	pannō	pannīs
Accusative	pannum	pannōs
Ablative	pannō	pannīs
Vocative	panne	pannī

Derived terms

• pannifex

 

Descendants

• Catalan: pany
• Greek: πανί (paní)
• Italian: panno
• Old French: pan
  • French: pan
  • → Middle English: pane
    • English: pane
    • → Irish: pána

• Old Galician-Portuguese: pano
  • Galician: pano
  • Portuguese: pano
• Spanish: paño

References

• “pannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pannus 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)
• pannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in rag: pannis obsitus