pannus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin pannus (“cloth”). Doublet of pagne and pane. === Noun === pannus (plural panni or pannuses) A hanging flap of skin or other tissue, especially one covering the cornea (in trachoma) or cartilage (in rheumatoid arthritis). (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. (medicine) A tent for a wound. (medicine) A birthmark on the skin. ==== Synonyms ==== (cloud): scud === Anagrams === sannup, unsnap == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain. Potential cognates include Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”) (from Proto-Hellenic *pān-) and maybe also πήνη (pḗnē, “woof thread”), and Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌰 (fana, “piece of cloth”), Old English fana (“flag”), English fane (from Proto-Germanic *fanô). Because of the variation in vowel and consonant length between these terms, De Vaan 2008 denies the possibility of reconstructing any common Proto-Indo-European etymon for them and says they could be loanwords from an unknown source language. In contrast, Kroonen 2013 reconstructs their source as Proto-Indo-European *peh₂, *ph₂ + *-n-, explaining Latin pann- as a development from *pān- by the "littera rule", a phenomenon with unclear conditions whose applicability is disputed. See Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpan.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpan.nus] === Noun === pannus m (genitive pannī); second declension cloth rag garment ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “pannus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.