penna

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The word pen comes from the Latin penna, "a feather;" and as in olden days the ordinary pens were "quills" of birds, the name was very good.

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

Sed taceat, qui χαῖρε tuum quoque nuntiat, ales; Χαῖρε meum penna candidiore venit.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Swallow-like, English poetry had hung about the eaves or skimmed the surface of town and court; but now, like the lark, it soared into freer air— Cœtusque vulgares et udam Spernit humum fugiente penna.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

Dic, Phoenix unde in nitidos novus emicat annos, Plaudit et elusos aurea penna rogos?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

He rarely abandons himself, without reserve, to the frolic puerilities so common with the sister Muse of Italy,   "Scritta così come la penna getta,   Per fuggir l'ozio, e non per cercar gloria."

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling