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English
Etymology
Latin pernio.
Pronunciation
Noun
pernio (plural perniones or pernios)
- (countable, uncountable) Synonym of chilblain
Usage notes
Of the major English dictionaries that enter pernio at all, most enter only perniones for the plural form. As with other words naturalized into English from ancient Latin or New Latin, the Latin plural inflection and the English plural inflection have both been used, and there is no general rule for which one is considered preferable, as preference varies by word, dictionary, academic field, and commentator (e.g., fibulae versus fibulas, formulae versus formulas, femora versus femurs).
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Latin
Etymology
From perna (“gammon”) + -iō.
Pronunciation
Noun
perniō m (genitive perniōnis); third declension
- A kibe on the foot, a chilblain
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “pernio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pernio 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)
- pernio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.