panus
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Searchable Lemmata: panus (L).
Alternate Forms: pani, pano.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Manufacture;
in Classical Latin, the thread wound around the bobbin of a shuttle; the weft thread. In the medieval period, different writers applied the term variously to bobbins, pins which supported spools or bobbins, shuttles, distaffs, or simply to sewing needles. Cf. the diminutive panicula, which had a similarly broad range of meanings.(ante 709 - circa 1440)
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Classical Latin, from Greek πήνος 'web, thread'.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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