"pinna" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈpɪn.na] [Classical-Latin], [ˈpin.na] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: 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”), 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”). Etymology templates: {{unc|la}} Uncertain, {{der|la|ine-pro|*(s)piHn-||backbone, dorsal fin}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)piHn- (“backbone, dorsal fin”), {{cog|sga|ind||end, point}} Old Irish ind (“end, point”), {{cog|xto|spin||hook}} Tocharian A spin (“hook”), {{cog|en|fin}} English fin, {{der|la|itc-pro|*petnā}} Proto-Italic *petnā, {{der|la|ine-pro|*péth₂r̥|*péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-|feather, wing}} Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”) Head templates: {{la-noun|pinna<1>}} pinna f (genitive pinnae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|pinna<1>}} Forms: pinnae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], pinna [nominative, singular], pinnae [nominative, plural], pinnae [genitive, singular], pinnārum [genitive, plural], pinnae [dative, singular], pinnīs [dative, plural], pinnam [accusative, singular], pinnās [accusative, plural], pinnā [ablative, singular], pinnīs [ablative, plural], pinna [singular, vocative], pinnae [plural, vocative]
  1. alternative form of penna (“wing, feather”) Tags: alt-of, alternative, declension-1, feminine Alternative form of: penna (extra: wing, feather)
    Sense id: en-pinna-la-noun-UJWjTdOv Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 71 6 17 6 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 22 28 25 25
  2. a fin Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-pinna-la-noun-~l5OJLRI Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 22 28 25 25
  3. a merlon, cop (the raised part of a parapet or battlement) Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-pinna-la-noun-LmUEcV73 Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 22 28 25 25
  4. (Medieval Latin) a peg, pin, bolt Tags: Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-pinna-la-noun-VvhB8GTX Categories (other): Medieval Latin, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 22 28 25 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pinnāculum, pinnirapus, pinnula

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pinnāculum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pinnirapus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pinnula"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "pinna"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "pinna"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*(s)piHn-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)piHn-"
    ],
    [
      "ind",
      "ind#Old_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "spin",
      "spin#Tocharian_A"
    ],
    [
      "fin",
      "fin#English"
    ],
    [
      "penna",
      "penna#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "dignus",
      "dignus#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "firmus",
      "firmus#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "*petnā",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/petnā"
    ],
    [
      "*péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/péth₂r̥"
    ],
    [
      "*peth₂-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peth₂-"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)piHn-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "backbone, dorsal fin"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ind",
        "3": "",
        "4": "end, point"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xto",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "hook"
      },
      "expansion": "Tocharian A spin (“hook”)",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fin"
      },
      "expansion": "English fin",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*petnā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *petnā",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*péth₂r̥",
        "4": "*péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-",
        "5": "feather, wing"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain, could be a merger of two etymons:\n* In the sense \"fin\", from Proto-Indo-European *(s)piHn- (“backbone, dorsal fin”), cognate to Old Irish ind (“end, point”), Tocharian A spin (“hook”), English fin.\n* 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”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnārum",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnārum",
          "pinnarum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnīs",
          "pinnis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnās",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnās",
          "pinnas#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnā",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnā",
          "pinna#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnīs",
          "pinnis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pinna<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "pinna f (genitive pinnae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pinna<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "wing, feather",
          "word": "penna"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis": "71 6 17 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 28 25 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative form of penna (“wing, feather”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-pinna-la-noun-UJWjTdOv",
      "links": [
        [
          "penna",
          "penna#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "22 28 25 25",
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          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a fin"
      ],
      "id": "en-pinna-la-noun-~l5OJLRI",
      "links": [
        [
          "fin",
          "fin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a merlon, cop (the raised part of a parapet or battlement)"
      ],
      "id": "en-pinna-la-noun-LmUEcV73",
      "links": [
        [
          "merlon",
          "merlon"
        ],
        [
          "cop",
          "cop"
        ],
        [
          "parapet",
          "parapet#English"
        ],
        [
          "battlement",
          "battlement#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Medieval Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 28 25 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to drink in large quantities or competitively",
          "raw_tags": [
            "idiom, perh. referring to pins set inside drinking cups to mark exact quantities"
          ],
          "text": "ad pinnās bibere",
          "translation": "to drink in large quantities or competitively",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a peg, pin, bolt"
      ],
      "id": "en-pinna-la-noun-VvhB8GTX",
      "links": [
        [
          "peg",
          "peg"
        ],
        [
          "pin",
          "pin"
        ],
        [
          "bolt",
          "bolt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Medieval Latin) a peg, pin, bolt"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Medieval-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpɪn.na]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpin.na]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinna"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Latin first declension nouns",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Pages with 8 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "pinnāculum"
    },
    {
      "word": "pinnirapus"
    },
    {
      "word": "pinnula"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "pinna"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "pinna"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
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      "*(s)piHn-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)piHn-"
    ],
    [
      "ind",
      "ind#Old_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "spin",
      "spin#Tocharian_A"
    ],
    [
      "fin",
      "fin#English"
    ],
    [
      "penna",
      "penna#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "dignus",
      "dignus#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "firmus",
      "firmus#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "*petnā",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/petnā"
    ],
    [
      "*péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/péth₂r̥"
    ],
    [
      "*peth₂-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peth₂-"
    ]
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la"
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      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    },
    {
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        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
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      "args": {
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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      },
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    },
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        "3": "*petnā"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
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        "4": "*péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-",
        "5": "feather, wing"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain, could be a merger of two etymons:\n* In the sense \"fin\", from Proto-Indo-European *(s)piHn- (“backbone, dorsal fin”), cognate to Old Irish ind (“end, point”), Tocharian A spin (“hook”), English fin.\n* 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”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnārum",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnārum",
          "pinnarum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnīs",
          "pinnis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnās",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnās",
          "pinnas#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnā",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnā",
          "pinna#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinnīs",
          "pinnis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinnae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pinna<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "pinna f (genitive pinnae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pinna<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "wing, feather",
          "word": "penna"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative form of penna (“wing, feather”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penna",
          "penna#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a fin"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fin",
          "fin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a merlon, cop (the raised part of a parapet or battlement)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "merlon",
          "merlon"
        ],
        [
          "cop",
          "cop"
        ],
        [
          "parapet",
          "parapet#English"
        ],
        [
          "battlement",
          "battlement#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with usage examples",
        "Medieval Latin"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to drink in large quantities or competitively",
          "raw_tags": [
            "idiom, perh. referring to pins set inside drinking cups to mark exact quantities"
          ],
          "text": "ad pinnās bibere",
          "translation": "to drink in large quantities or competitively",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a peg, pin, bolt"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "peg",
          "peg"
        ],
        [
          "pin",
          "pin"
        ],
        [
          "bolt",
          "bolt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Medieval Latin) a peg, pin, bolt"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Medieval-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpɪn.na]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpin.na]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinna"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.