pannus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pannus (“cloth”). Doublet of pagne, pan, and pane.
Noun
pannus (plural panni or pannuses)
- A hanging flap of skin or other tissue, especially one covering the cornea (in trachoma) or cartilage (in rheumatoid arthritis).
- (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.
- (medicine) A tent for a wound.
- (medicine) A birthmark on the skin.
Synonyms
- (cloud): scud
Anagrams
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).[1] 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",[2] a phenomenon with unclear conditions whose applicability is disputed.[3] 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
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
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “pannus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 443-4
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*fanan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 127
- ^ Weiss, Michael (2010), “Observations on the Littera Rule”, in Academia.edu[2] (Paper presented at East Coast Indo-European Conference 29, Cornell University, 19–20 June)
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’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[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- in rag: pannis obsitus
- in rag: pannis obsitus