pannum
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron."
- "As far as injun, pannum, and cheese, and a drop of heavy goes, you are perfectly welcome."
- "I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on."
Etymology
Compare Norwegian Rodi cant pannom/panum, meaning loaf; Swedish Månsing cant pan (“loaf”), and old jargon Dutch paen (“bread”). Having in mind the fact that Rodi and Månsing tend to have many Latin borrowings, it is likely that English pannum is also derived from Latin pānem, the accusative of pānis (“bread, loaf”). But it also may be through Italian pane (“bread”), in the light of that the English thieves' cant is known to have some Italian borrowings as well.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
Phrases
pannum-bound
pannum-fence
pannum-struck