pinna

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

• panni

From Swedish pinne (“stick, spoke”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinːɑ/, [ˈpinːɑ]

pinna

1. spoke (of a wheel, ie. in bicycle)
2. (nautical) tiller
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 loosing 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

• irtopinna
• pinnasänky
• pinnatuoli
• pyöränpinna

• napin, nipan, panin

pinna f (plural pinne)

1. fin
2. flipper

• panni

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)piHn- "backbone, dorsal fin" (compare spīna), or alternative form of penna, from Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.na/, [ˈpɪn.na]

pinna f (genitive pinnae); first declension

1. Alternative form of penna

First declension.

• 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, 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

pinna f

1. pen (writing instrument)

From Latin penna.

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

pinna f (plural pinni)

1. feather
2. pen
3. fin