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5-letter words (2 found)

PANNE,PENNA,

4-letter words (5 found)

NANE,NAPE,NEAP,PANE,PEAN,

3-letter words (11 found)

ANE,ANN,APE,EAN,NAE,NAN,NAP,NEP,PAN,PEA,PEN,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AN,EA,EN,NA,NE,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 27 words from penna according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of penna

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Definitions and meaning of penna

penna

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

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

Noun

penna f (plural penne)

  1. feather
  2. pen
  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.

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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

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

References

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin penna.

Pronunciation

Noun

penna c

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

Declension

Related terms

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

Further reading

  • penna in Svensk ordbok.

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