different between pannus vs pannicle

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle French pannicle, and its source, Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle (plural pannicles)

1. (anatomy, zoology) A membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal.
2. (obsolete, medicine) A pannus.
3. (obsolete, rare) The skull.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     To him he turned, and with rigour fell / Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell, / That to the chin he cleft his head in twaine [...].

Anagrams

• pinnacle

Middle French

Etymology

From Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle f (plural pannicles)

1. pannicle (membrane)

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle f (oblique plural pannicles, nominative singular pannicle, nominative plural pannicles)

1. pannicle (membrane)