penna

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Similarly, I have used the form penna at iv 12 and vii 37, where C offers pinna.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

His putting to flight the assassins in Ferrara gave him such a reputation for courage, that there went about in his honour a popular couplet   "Colla penna e colla spada   Nessun val quanto Torquato."

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato

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

A Noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or quality; as, Caesar, Caesar; Rōma, Rome; penna, feather; virtūs, courage.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

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)