different between montana vs pencil

Italian

Adjective

montana f sg

1. feminine singular of montano

Latin

Alternative forms

• mont?nea (medieval)

Adjective

mont?na

1. nominative feminine singular of mont?nus
2. nominative neuter plural of mont?nus
3. accusative neuter plural of mont?nus
4. vocative feminine singular of mont?nus
5. vocative neuter plural of mont?nus

Adjective

mont?n?

1. ablative feminine singular of mont?nus

Etymology

Nominalization of mont?na, feminine of mont?nus (“of a mountain”), from m?ns +? -?nus.

Noun

mont?na f (genitive mont?nae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) mountain

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Through a variant mont?nea or mont?nia.

• Corsican: muntagna
• Friulian: montagne
• Galician: montaña
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: montanha
• Kabuverdianu: montanha
• Italian: montagna
• Occitan: montanha
• Old French: montaigne
  • Middle English: montaigne (borrowing)
    • English: mountain
  • Middle French: montaigne
    • French: montagne
  • Norman: mountangne, montangne, maontogne
  • Walloon: montinne
• Portuguese: montanha
• Romansch: muntagna
• Sardinian: montagna
• Sicilian: muntagna
• Spanish: montaña

References

• montana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Adjective

montana f sg

1. feminine singular of montano

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mon?tana/, [mõn??t?a.na]

Adjective

montana f sg

1. feminine singular of montano

English

Alternative forms

• pensill (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin p?nicillum, diminutive of p?niculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of p?nis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ns?l/
• (also) (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?ns?l/
• Rhymes: -?ns?l
• Hyphenation: pen?cil

Noun

pencil (plural pencils)

1. (now chiefly historical) A paintbrush. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.0:

     But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt […].

   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 1390:

     He requested three things of Sir Joshua Reynolds:—To forgive him thirty pounds which he had borrowed of him; to read the Bible; and never to use his pencil on a Sunday.

2. A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. [from 16th c.]
3. (optics) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. [from 17th c.]
4. (geometry) A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane. [from 19th c.]
   • 1863, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal

     When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]

5. (medicine, obsolete, rare) A small medicated bougie. [19th c.]
6. (gambling) Short for power of the pencil.
   • 1978, Mario Puzo, Fools Die

     And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Bole: pensur
• ? Central Dusun: pinsil
• ? Central Melanau: pisil
• ? Dhivehi: ????????? (fan?suru)
• ? Hausa: fensir
• ? Hindi: ?????? (pensil), ??????? (pensil)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: peansail
• ? Tagalog: pensil

Translations

Verb

pencil (third-person singular simple present pencils, present participle (UK) pencilling or (US) penciling, simple past and past participle (UK) pencilled or (US) penciled)

1. (transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.

   I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
2. (transitive) To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
   • 1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine

     It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.

Derived terms

• pencil in
• pencil out

Further reading

• pencil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Malay

Adjective

p?ncil (Jawi spelling ??????, plural pencil-pencil)

1. to be isolated, separated

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pencil” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.