# penna
## English
### Etymology

From Latin penna (“feather”). Doublet of panne, pen, and pinna.

### Noun

penna (plural pennae)
* a contour feather

### Anagrams

* panne

## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pinna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpenna/
* Rhymes: -enna
* Syllabification: pen‧na

### Noun

penna f (plural pennas)
* (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
* main, principal

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the Latin penna (“feather”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛnːɒ]
* Hyphenation: pen‧na
* Rhymes: -nɒ

### Noun

penna (plural pennák)
* (archaic) quill pen, pen, quill (a feather used for writing)
    Synonyms: toll, írótoll

#### Declension
### 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: /ˈpen.na/
* Rhymes: -enna
* Hyphenation: pén‧na
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

penna f (plural penne)
* feather
* 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.
* (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. See also pēnis (“tail, penis”), which penna may have been conflated semantically with.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpen.na/, [ˈpɛnːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpen.na/, [ˈpɛnːä]

### Noun

penna f (genitive pennae); first declension
* wing (of natural or supernatural creatures)
** (figuratively) wing as a symbol of speed
* feather, especially a flight-feather; pinion
* 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.

#### Coordinate terms

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

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

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

#### See also

* pterus

### References

* ↑ 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
* “penna” on page 1459 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
* “pinna” on page 1520 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

## Old Spanish
### Noun

penna f (plural pennas)
* rock

## Sassarese
### 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: /ˈpenna/

### Noun

penna f (plural penni)
* (historical) reed pen
* (historical) quill pen
* pen
    Hyponym: penna isthirogràfica
* (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:(file)

### Noun

penna c
* a contour feather, a penna
* a quill, a feather used for writing
* a pen
* a pencil
    vässa en penna med en pennvässaresharpen a pencil with a pencil sharpener

#### Related terms

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

#### See also

* bläck (“ink”)
* pennvässare (“pencil sharpener”)
* rita (“draw”)
* stift (“lead”)
* teckna
* vässa (“sharpen”)

### References

* penna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* penna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* penna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)