different between penny vs penna

English

Etymology

From Middle English peny, from Old English penning, penni?, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.ni/
• Rhymes: -?ni
• (in compounds like "twopenny", dated) IPA^(key): /p?ni/

Noun

penny (plural pennies or pence or (obsolete) pens)

1. (historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth ¹?₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.

   • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

2. In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth ¹?₁₀₀ of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p.
3. (historical) In Ireland, a coin worth ¹?₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
4. In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹?₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
5. In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
6. A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
7. Money in general.

Usage notes

The plural pence is only used as a unit of currency. The plural pennies is used for other cases, in particular when referring to multiple individual coins.

Compounds (twopence, threepence, fourpence and so on up to tenpence, but not eleven pence or any higher) should be read with the stress on the first syllable and a reduced /?/ in pence. Thus /?t?p?ns/, /????p?ns/, /?f??p?ns/ and so on.

Synonyms

• (¹?₂₄₀ of a pound sterling): old penny
• (¹?₁₀₀ of a pound sterling): new penny (old-fashioned)
• (one-cent coin): cent

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

penny (third-person singular simple present pennies, present participle pennying, simple past and past participle pennied)

1. (slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.

   Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.

2. (electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.

See also

• d
• cent
• the penny drops

Anagrams

• Pynne

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English penny.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.ni/

Noun

penny m (plural pennys)

1. penny

Further reading

• “penny” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

penny m (plural pennies)

1. Alternative spelling of péni

English

Etymology

From Latin penna (“feather”). Doublet of panne.

Noun

penna (plural pennae)

1. a contour feather

Anagrams

• panne

Breton

Adjective

penna

1. main, principal

Hungarian

Etymology

From the Latin penna (“feather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?n??]
• Hyphenation: pen?na
• Rhymes: -n?

Noun

penna (plural pennák)

1. (archaic) quill pen, pen, quill (a feather used for writing)

   Synonyms: toll, írótoll

Declension

Further reading

• penna in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin penna and pinna, from Proto-Italic *petn?, from Proto-Indo-European *péth?r? ~ pth?én- (“feather, wing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pen.na/
• Rhymes: -enna

Noun

penna f (plural penne)

1. feather
2. pen

3. (cooking, in the plural) penne (type of pasta)

Related terms

• pennacchiera
• pennacchio
• pennaiolo
• pennata
• pennello
• penniforme
• pennino
• penne rigate
• penne lisce

Anagrams

• panne

Latin

Alternative forms

• pinna

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *petn?, from Proto-Indo-European *péth?r? ~ pth?én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth?- (“to fly”), with pinna apparently representing a dialectal variant with pre-nasal raising.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

penna f (genitive pennae); first declension

1. wing (of natural or supernatural creatures)
   1. (figuratively) wing as a symbol of speed
2. feather, especially a flight-feather; pinion
3. quill pen

Usage notes

• Unlike its variant pinna, is not found in the meanings "fin" or "raised part of a parapet".

Declension

First-declension noun.

Coordinate terms

• (wing) ?la
• (feather) pl?ma, pl?mula
• (pen) calamus

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• pterus

References

• “penna” on page 1459 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “pinna” on page 1520 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “penna”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 458

Further reading

• penna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• penna in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• penna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• penna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• penna in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Spanish

Noun

penna f (plural pennas)

1. rock

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin penna

Pronunciation

Noun

penna c

1. a contour feather, a penna
2. a quill, a feather used for writing
3. a pen
4. a pencil

Declension

Related terms

• blyertspenna
• bläckpenna
• gåspenna
• kulspetspenna
• pennal
• pennfodral
• pennkniv
• pennskaft
• pennskrin
• penntroll
• pennvässare
• reservoarpenna
• stiftpenna
• stålpenna
• vingpenna