pinna

From Latin pinna (“dorsal fin; wing, feather”). Doublet of pen, penna, and panne.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪnə/
• Rhymes: -ɪnə
• Homophone: Pinner (in non-rhotic accents)

Diagram of the pinna (part of ear)

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.

   Meronyms: antihelix, antitragus, concha, helix, tragus

2. (botany) A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf.
3. (zoology) A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage.

• PanIN, panni

pinna

1. genitive singular of pind

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinːɑ/, [ˈpinːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -inːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pin‧na

pinna

1. spoke (of a wheel, e.g. in a 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

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

• “pinna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• napin, nipan, panin, panni

• IPA^(key): /ˈpin.na/
• Rhymes: -inna
• Hyphenation: pìn‧na

pinna f (plural pinne)

1. fin
2. flipper

• panni

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 स्फ्य (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 *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.na/, [ˈpɪnːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.na/, [ˈpinːä]

pinna f (genitive pinnae); first declension

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

   ad pinnās bibere (idiom, perh. referring to pins set inside drinking cups to mark exact quantities) ― to drink in large quantities or competitively

• Senses (2), (3) and (4) are not found for the form penna.

First-declension noun.

• pinnāculum
• pinnirapus
• pinnula

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “pinna”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Borrowed from Sicilian pinna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪn.na/

pinna f (plural pinen or pinni)

1. pen (writing instrument)

   Synonym: bajrow

From Latin penna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinna/
• Hyphenation: pin‧na

pinna f (plural pinni)

1. feather
2. pen
3. fin