penna
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pennae
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Origin of penna
< Latin: feather. See pen 1
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In this country the problem is to decline "penna:" in Germany "mensa" is the word.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
A Noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or quality; as, Caesar, Caesar; Rōma, Rome; penna, feather; virtūs, courage.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
The word pen comes from the Latin penna, "a feather;" and as in olden days the ordinary pens were "quills" of birds, the name was very good.
From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
Swallow-like, English poetry had hung about the eaves or skimmed the surface of town and court; but now, like the lark, it soared into freer air— Cœtusque vulgares et udam Spernit humum fugiente penna.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
He rarely abandons himself, without reserve, to the frolic puerilities so common with the sister Muse of Italy, "Scritta così come la penna getta, Per fuggir l'ozio, e non per cercar gloria."
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott
Suffice it to say that the list includes every carrion-feeder among flesh and fowl who assemble in immense flocks: "Nunquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit, aut plures presserunt aethere pennae."
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
And the palaeographer knows that any scratch or scribbling, any probatio pennae or casual entry, may become important in tracing the wanderings of a manuscript.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
The entry is found in the upper margin of fol. 51r and doubtless represents a probatio pennae on the part of a notary.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
Moreover, if the probatio pennae on fol.53r is Carolingian,17 it would appear that the book had been in France at the beginning as well as at the end of the Middle Ages.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
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