different between eardrum vs pinna

English

Alternative forms

• ear drum

Etymology

ear +? drum

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????d??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i??d??m/
• Rhymes: -??d??m

Noun

eardrum (plural eardrums)

1. (anatomy) A thin membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear and transmits sound from the air to the malleus.

Synonyms

• membrana tympanica
• tympanic membrane

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n?/
• Rhymes: -?n?
• Homophone: Pinner (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology

From Latin pinna (“dorsal fin; wing, feather”)

Noun

pinna (plural pinnas or pinnae)

1. (anatomy) The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal.
2. (botany) A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf.
3. (zoology) A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• PanIN, panni

Estonian

Noun

pinna

1. genitive singular of pind

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish pinne (“stick, spoke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pin??/, [?pin??]
• Rhymes: -in??
• Syllabification: pin?na

Noun

pinna

1. spoke (of a wheel, ie. in 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

Synonyms

• (point): piste
• (temper): hermot
• (percent): prosentti

Compounds

• irtopinna
• pinnasänky
• pinnatuoli
• pyöränpinna

Anagrams

• napin, nipan, panin, panni

Italian

Noun

pinna f (plural pinne)

1. fin
2. flipper

Anagrams

• panni

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”), Sanskrit ????? (sphyá, “splinter, staff”), 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 *petn?, from Proto-Indo-European *péth?r? ~ pth?én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth?- (“to fly”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pin.na/, [?p?n?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pin.na/, [?pin??]

Noun

pinna f (genitive pinnae); first declension

1. Alternative form of penna (“wing, feather”)
2. a fin
   1. a merlon, cop (the raised part of a parapet or battlement)
3. (Medieval Latin) a peg, pin, bolt

Usage notes

• Senses (2) and (3) are not found for the form penna.

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne (eds.) (1975–2013) , “pinna”, in Dictionary of medieval Latin from British sources?^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, ?ISBN, OCLC 1369101

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, 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

Maltese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

pinna f

1. pen (writing instrument)

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin penna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pinna/
• Hyphenation: pin?na

Noun

pinna f (plural pinni)

1. feather
2. pen
3. fin