penus
Esperanto
Verb
penus
- conditional of peni
Latin
Alternative forms
- penu, penum
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *penos, from Proto-Indo-European *pén-os (“food”), from *pen-. Compare penes, Lithuanian penė́ti (“to feed”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.nus/, [ˈpɛnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.nus/, [ˈpɛːnus]
Noun
penus m or f (variously declined, genitive penī or penūs); second declension, fourth declension
penus n (genitive penoris); third declension
- Provisions, food
- The innermost part of a temple of Vesta, the sanctuary
Declension
Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.
| Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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Derived terms
- Penātes
Related terms
- penes
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “penus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 458-459
Further reading
- “penus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “penus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- penus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- penus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Old French
Etymology
peine + -us
Adjective
penus m (oblique and nominative feminine singular penuse)
- painful
- circa 1150, Unknown author, La Chanson de Roland:
- « Deus, » dist li reis, « si penuse est ma vie ! »
- "God!" said the king, "so painful is my life!"
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Volapük
Noun
penus
- predicative plural of pen