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English

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Etymology

From Latin pinna (dorsal fin; wing, feather). Doublet of pen, penna, and panne.

Pronunciation

Noun

pinna (plural pinnas or pinnae)

  1. (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
  2. (botany) A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf.
  3. (zoology) A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage.

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Estonian

Noun

pinna

  1. genitive singular of pind

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish pinne (stick, spoke).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpinːɑ/, [ˈpinːɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -inːɑ
  • Syllabification(key): pin‧na
  • Hyphenation(key): pin‧na

Noun

pinna

  1. spoke (of a wheel, e.g. in a bicycle)
  2. (nautical) tiller
    Synonym: peräsinkampi
  3. (music) sound post (dowel inside an instrument of violin family)
  4. (colloquial) point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)
  5. (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.
  6. (colloquial) percent

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpin.na/
  • Rhymes: -inna
  • Hyphenation: pìn‧na

Noun

pinna f (plural pinne)

  1. fin
  2. flipper

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, could be a merger of two etymons:

Pronunciation

Noun

pinna f (genitive pinnae); first declension

  1. alternative form of penna (wing, feather)
  2. a fin
  3. a merlon, cop (the raised part of a parapet or battlement)
  4. (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

Descendants

  • Italian: pinna
  • Sicilian: pinna

References

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

Borrowed from Sicilian pinna.

Pronunciation

Noun

pinna f (plural pinen or pinni)

  1. pen (writing instrument)
    Synonym: bajrow

Old English

Noun

pinna m

  1. alternative form of pinne

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin penna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpinna/
  • Hyphenation: pin‧na

Noun

pinna f (plural pinni)

  1. feather
  2. pen
  3. fin

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