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
But, alas! with the book the sounds glided away; and "penna" and "pennam" and "pennis" and "pennæ" were confusedly and indiscriminately mingled.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Are they so hugely interested in the performances of my unassuming penna?"
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
His putting to flight the assassins in Ferrara gave him such a reputation for courage, that there went about in his honour a popular couplet "Colla penna e colla spada Nessun val quanto Torquato."
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
The sharp distinction early made between "contrapunctus 215 a penna" and "contrapunctus a mente" showed that composers and singers to a certain degree actually stood in rivalry in their production of passage work for voices.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
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
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
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
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
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