pannum

== English == === Alternative forms === panem, panum, pannam, pennam === Etymology === Possibly from Italian pane (“bread”) or directly from Latin pānem, the accusative of pānis (“bread, loaf”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to feed, to graze”). === Noun === pannum (uncountable) (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Bread; food. ==== Derived terms ==== pannum-bound (“said of a pauper or prisoner when his food is stopped”), pannum-fence (“street pastry cook”), pannum-struck (“starving”) === References === Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “pannum”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 114. John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1902), “pannum”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume V, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 134. == Latin == === Noun === pannum accusative singular of pannus === References === "pannum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) == Old English == === Noun === pannum dative plural of panne