pannus

See also: Pannus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pannus (“cloth”). Doublet of pagne 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

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Potential cognates include Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”) (from Proto-Hellenic *pān-) and maybe also πήνη (pḗnē, “woof thread”), and Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌰 (fana, “piece of cloth”), Old English fana (“flag”), English fane (from Proto-Germanic *fanô). Because of the variation in vowel and consonant length between these terms, De Vaan 2008 denies the possibility of reconstructing any common Proto-Indo-European etymon for them and says they could be loanwords from an unknown source language. In contrast, Kroonen 2013 reconstructs their source as Proto-Indo-European *peh₂, *ph₂ + *-n-, explaining Latin pann- as a development from *pān- by the "littera rule", a phenomenon with unclear conditions whose applicability is disputed. See Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpan.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpan.nus]

Noun

pannus m (genitive pannī); second declension

1. cloth
2. rag
3. garment

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pannus	pannī
genitive	pannī	pannōrum
dative	pannō	pannīs
accusative	pannum	pannōs
ablative	pannō	pannīs
vocative	panne	pannī

Derived terms

• pannifex

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: panno
  • Sicilian: pannu
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pany
  • Old French: pan (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pano
    • Galician: pano
    • Portuguese: pano
  • Spanish: paño (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → English: pannus
  • → Greek: πανί (paní)

Further reading

• “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, 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^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in rag: pannis obsitus