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Word Origin & History

"writing implement," late 13c., from Old French pene "quill pen; feather" (12c.) and directly from Latin penna "a feather, plume," in plural "a wing," in Late Latin, "a pen for writing," from Old Latin petna, pesna, from PIE *pet-na-, suffixed form of root *pet- "to rush; to fly" (see petition (n.)).

Latin penna and pinna "a feather, plume;" in plural "a wing;" also "a pinnacle; battlement" (see pin (n.)) are treated as identical in Watkins, etc., but regarded as separate (but confused) Latin words by Tucker and others, who derive pinna from PIE *spei- "sharp point" (cf. spike (n.1)) and see the "feather/wing" sense as secondary.

In later French, this word means only "long feather of a bird," while the equivalent of English plume is used for "writing implement," the senses of the two words thus are reversed from the situation in English. Pen-and-ink (adj.) is attested from 1670s. Pen name is recorded from mid-19c.

Example Sentences for penning

This is the only explanation we can give for penning this memorial.

She was collecting some essays and penning an introductory memoir.

Let it not be supposed, from what I have just said, that I am detailing any mystery, or penning any romance.

This discourse was the cause of his penning a letter to his brother.

Let me be as brief as I can in penning the details, which almost sicken me while I recall them.

But I suppose it is of my sister's penning, and he, poor man!

As surely as that this hand is penning the words, I tell you but the truth.

There was not much in the life we are penning that was not little in some comparisons.

He is capable of penning a canto to a crinoline, and has a pathetic monody on a mackintosh.

I have been penning in my mind, lying here, a letter to one who will show it to the Queen.

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