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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pannus (“cloth”). Doublet of pagne, pan, and pane.

Noun

pannus (plural panni or pannuses)

1. A hanging flap of skin or other tissue, especially one covering the cornea (in trachoma) or cartilage (in rheumatoid arthritis).
2. (meteorology) A type of accessory cloud, looking like shreds either attached to, or separated from, the main cloud formation; mainly associated with nimbostratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus.
3. (medicine) A tent for a wound.
4. (medicine) A birthmark on the skin.

Synonyms

• (cloud): scud

Anagrams

• sannup, unsnap

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peh?n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (pênos, “web”), Gothic ???????????????? (fana, “piece of cloth”), Old English fana (“flag”), English fane.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pan.nus/, [?pän??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pan.nus/, [?p?n?us]

Noun

pannus m (genitive pann?); second declension

1. cloth
2. rag
3. garment

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• pannus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pannus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pannus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.