pannus

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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.

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • in rag: pannis obsitus
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 443-4.
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