The corpus record — Latin

pannus

piece of cloth, rag

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Commodus Antoninus 2 · 5.77/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
De Carne Christi 2 · 2.1/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
Satyricon 5 · 1.64/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pannus — de Vaan

pannus 'piece of cloth, rag' [m. ο] (Ρ1.+) IE cognates: Gr. πηνος [a], ττήνη [f.] 'woven cloth' (Hsch.) < *pan-, Go. fana [m.] 'cloth, towel', OUGfano 'cloth', NHG Fahne, OE fana 'banner' < *fan-6n. If the Gr. and Gm. words listed are related, they probably represent loanwords from an unknown source. The vacillation between a and a, and Latin -a- and -nn-9 cannot panus be explained from a common PIE preform. BibL: … — [de Vaan, s.v. pannus, p. 457]

2. pannus — Lewis & Short

pannus, i, m. (

I neutr. collat. form pannum, i, Nov. ap. Non. 218, 27.—Dat. and abl. plur. pannibus, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 40 P.; Pompon. ap. Non. 488, 32) [ph=nos; Dor. pa=nos], a cloth, a garment.

I Lit.: albo Fides Velata panno, Hor. C. 1, 35, 21; Mart. 2, 46, 9: eventus viridis panni, Juv. 11, 198. —Esp. of torn, worn-out clothes, rags, tatters: pannis annisque obsitus, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 5; Lucr. 6, 1269; Sen. Contr. 1, 6; id. Ep. 20, 8: rara in tenui facundia panno, Juv. 7, 145; Petr. 83 fin.—

II Transf.

A A rag: unus et alter Adsuitur pannus, Hor. A. P. 15; id. Epod. 17, 51: membraque vinxerunt tinctis ferrugine pannis, Ov. Ib. 235; Sen. Ira, 3, 19, 3; Plin. 29, 6, 36, § 114; Col. 6, 12: panno rubro fugare armentum, Gai. Inst. 3, 202.—

B A head-band, fillet, Val. Max. 7, 2, n. 5 ext.; 6, 2, n. 7.—

C A bag, satchel, Petr. 135.—

D A (perh. raglike) substance that grows on the tree aegilops, besides its acorns, Plin. 16, 8, 13, § 33. —

E Plur., an infant's swaddling-clothes: panni infantiae, Vulg. Job, 38, 9; id. Luc. 2, 12.

In the wild

pannis Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 9
panno Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.19.p2
pannis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.13
pannis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.10
panno Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p7
pannis Plautus, Asinaria 1.2

6 of 83 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. pannus (scan pp. 457-458; entry #1249). Root candidates: *pan-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pannus (scan p. 503; entry #8180).

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