Penna, huius pennæ, fœ gen. Auium est. Cice. A penne, quill, or fether, a wing as well of a birde as of a flie.Pennæ & plumæ. Columella, Eæ sint rubicundæ, vel fuscæ plumæ, nigrisqúe pennis. Caulis pennarum, Vide CAVLIS.Celer penna anser.Ouid.A goose swift of wing.Iactatus pennarum.Ouid.Moouing of the wings.Albæ pennæ. Lucret. Croceæ.Virg.Deficiens penna.Ouid.When a birde is wearie and can flie no longer.Fugiens penna. Hor. Niueæ pennæ. Ouid.Infirmæ pennæ.Ouid. Olorinæ. Virg.Leues. Ouid, Præceps penna. Iuuen.Mobilis penna.Ouid. Punicea. Virg. Ablata pennis Harpyia.Virg.Harpyia flying away.Appellere corpus pennis aliquò. Lucre. To flie away to anie place.Nisus inanis pennarum claudicat. Lucr. Coruscant pennis apes.Virg.Bees moue thicke their wings, or shake their wings.Præpetibus pennis ausus se credere cœlo. Vir. Being so bold to enterprise to flie with wings in the aire.Defertur pennis ales. Lucr. Flieth downe.Plausum ingentem dat pennis columba. Virgil. The dooue clappeth hir wings aloude.Excutere pennas.Ouid. Iactare pennas. Ouid.Labi pennis, Virg.To flie downe.Incidere pennas.Cic.To cut the wings.Pandunt pennas Halcyones.Virg.Percutere pennas in aere.Ouid.Plaudere pennis.Ouid.To clap the wings.Quatere pennas in aere.Ouid.Reuiuiscunt pennæ auulsæ. Plin. Secat geminis pennis aera auis. Cicero. The birde flieth in the aire.Leuis penna secat alta cœli. Sen. Madidas pennas siccat Auster. luuen. Tendere iter pennis.Virg.To flee. Pennæ scarabeorum. Plin. The wings of beetles. Pennæ renascuntur per trans. Cicero. Feathers grow out againe: or one recouereth againe the authoritie that hee was put from.aiores pennas nido extendere. Hor. To spreade his wings wider than his neast: to make greater auaunt and shewe than his state will beare.Sparsis fertur victoria pennis.Ouid.Celeres quatit pennas fortuna. Hor. Dubijs pennis volat victoria.Ouid.Victorie flitteth vncertainely.
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penna or pinna (old forms, pesna, petna, Fest. p. 205, 209 Müll.), f. [orig. different words, penna for petna; root petor pat-; Sanscr. patāmi, to fly; Gr. pe/tomai, prop. a wing: pinna for pitna; cf. Sanscr. pitu; Gr. pi/tus, the pine-tree; Lat. pinus; cf.: spiculum, spina; prop. a sharp point or end. To a late period an effort was made to distinguish them: nec miretur (puer), cur ... fiat a pinno quod est acutum, securis utrimque habens aciem bipennis, ne illorum sequatur errorem, qui, quia a pennis duabus hoc esse nomen existimant, pennas avium dici volunt, Quint. 1, 4, 12 Halm: pinnum enim antiqui acutum dicebant, Isid. Orig. 19, 19, 11 dub. (v. 1. pennus): pinnas murorum, pennas avium dicimus, Flav. Cap. p. 2243 P. This dictum of the old grammar we have to retain, although the distinction is neither etymologically sound nor is it always practically true; cf. bipennis, Bramb. Lat. Orthog. p. 118. In MSS. and edd. the two forms have mostly been used indiscriminately in all meanings except II. D. E. F. infra, in which pinna only is found; cf. esp. Wagn. Orth. Verg. p. 465; Rib. prol. Verg. p. 441 sq.; Corss. Ausspr. 2, p. 270 sq.], a feather on the body of a winged creature (syn. pluma). I.Lit.(a). Form penna: sine pennis volare haud facile est: meae alae pennas non habent, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 48: pennarum tuarum nitor, Phaedr. 1, 13, 6: maduere graves aspergine pennae, Ov. M. 4, 728.—(b). Form pinna: (aves) pullos pinnis fovent, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129: pinnarum caules omnium cavi, Plin. 11, 39, 34, 97; Sen. Ep. 42, 4: ova parire solet genus pinnis condecoratum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 59 Müll. (Ann. v. 10 Vahl.): conveniebat corvos ex albis album pinnis jactare colorem, Lucr. 2, 823 Munro: galli salaces, frequentibus pinnis, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 5; Col. 8, 2, 10: nam his rebus plumam pinnasque emundant, id. ib. 9, 14, 7: ut statim per somnum hianti pinna in os inderetur, Suet. Claud. 33.—II.Transf.A. In plur.: pennae (pinnae), a wing (syn. ala). (a). Form pennae: age tu, sis, sine pennis vola, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 80: quatere in aëre, Ov. M. 4, 676: pennis resumptis, id. ib. 4, 664: vertere,
to fly away
, Prop. 2, 24, 22 (3, 19, 6): penna, collect. for the wings, Ov. M. 2, 376.—(b). Form pinnae: geminis secat aëra pinnis, Cic. Arat. 48 (282): pinnas explicare, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 55: o Fides alma, apta pinnis, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 29, 104 (Trag. v. 410 Vahl.): densis ales pinnis obnixa, id. ap. Prob. ad Verg. E. 6, 31 (Ann. v. 148 ib.): (aquila) praepetibus pinnis (B. and K.; al. pennis), Cic. poët. Div. 1, 47, 106. —Of bees: pinnis coruscant, Verg. G. 4, 73. —Of locusts: pinnarum stridor, Plin. 11, 29, 35, 104.—Of gnats: pinnae culicis, Plin. 11, 2, 1, 3.—Prov.: pinnas incidere alicui, to clip one's wings, i. e. to deprive one of power or rank, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 5; so, decisis humilis pinnis, with clipped wings, i. e. with disappointed hopes, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 50; cf. the opp.: extendere pinnas, to spread out one's wings, i. e. to attempt great things, id. ib. 1, 20, 21.—b.Poet., a flying, flight.(a). Form penna: felicibus edita pennis, i. e. with a happy omen from the flight of birds, Prop. 3, 10 (4, 9), 11; Sil. 3, 344; Val. Fl. 1, 231.—(b). Form pinna: pinnā veras dare notas, Ov. F. 1, 448.—B.A feather on an arrow (poet.). 1. Form penna: per jugulum pennis tenus acta sagitta est, Ov. M. 6, 258.—Hence, 2.Meton., an arrow (poet.). (a). Form penna: cervos pennā petere, Val. Fl. 6, 421.—(b). Form pinna: olor trajectus pinnā, Ov. F. 2, 110.—C. In late Lat., a pen.—Form penna: instrumenta scribae, calamus et penna: sed calamus arboris est, penna avis, Isid. Orig. 6, 14.—D.A fin. —Form pinna, Plin. 9, 13, 15, 42.—E.A pinnacle.—Form pinna: turres contabulantur, pinnae loricaeque ex cratibus attexuntur, Caes. B. G. 5, 39; 7, 72: milites Metelli ... a pinnis hostis defendebant facillime funditore, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1; Verg. A. 7, 159: templi, Vulg. Luc. 4, 9.— F. In mechanics. 1.A float or bucket of a water-wheel.—Form pinna, Vitr. 10, 10. —2.A stop or key of a water-organ.— Form pinna, Vitr. 10, 13.
