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See also: Pinna
English
Etymology
From Latin pinna (“dorsal fin; wing, feather”). Doublet of pen, penna, and panne.
Pronunciation
Noun
pinna (plural pinnas or pinnae)
- (anatomy, zoology) The visible part of the ear in most therians that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal.
- Meronyms: antihelix, antitragus, concha, helix, tragus
- (botany) A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf.
- (zoology) A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage.
Derived terms
Translations
visible part of the ear
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leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf
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Estonian
Noun
pinna
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pinna
- spoke (of a wheel, e.g. in a bicycle)
- (nautical) tiller
- Synonym: peräsinkampi
- (music) sound post (dowel inside an instrument of violin family)
- (colloquial) point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)
- (colloquial) temper, nerve, fuse (in the sense of losing one's temper)
- Marian pinna paloi.
- Maria lost her temper.
- Marialla on lyhyt pinna.
- Maria's got a short fuse.
- (colloquial) percent
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pinna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
pinna f (plural pinne)
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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain, could be a merger of two etymons:
- In the sense "fin", from Proto-Indo-European *(s)piHn- (“backbone, dorsal fin”), cognate to Old Irish ind (“end, point”), Tocharian A spin (“hook”), English fin.
- In other senses, a dialectal form of penna with either pre-nasal (as in dignus) or post-labial (as in firmus) raising, from Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɪn.na]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpin.na]
Noun
pinna f (genitive pinnae); first declension
- alternative form of penna (“wing, feather”)
- a fin
- a merlon, cop (the raised part of a parapet or battlement)
- (Medieval Latin) a peg, pin, bolt
- ad pinnās bibere (idiom, perh. referring to pins set inside drinking cups to mark exact quantities) ― to drink in large quantities or competitively
Usage notes
- Senses (2), (3) and (4) are not found for the form penna.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- pinnāculum
- pinnirapus
- pinnula
Descendants
References
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “pinna”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
Further reading
- “pinna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pinna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "pinna", 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)
- “pinna”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pinna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pinna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “pinna”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
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Maltese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Old English
Noun
pinna m
- alternative form of pinne
Sicilian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pinna f (plural pinni)
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