perna

From Middle Cornish prena, from Proto-Brythonic *prɨnad, from Proto-Celtic *kʷrinati, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷrinéh₂ti ~ *kʷrinh₂énti.

• IPA^(key): /pernə/

perna

1. (Revived Late Cornish) to buy

From Proto-Finnic *perna, possibly from Indo-Iranian[1], cognate with Estonian põrn (“spleen”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpernɑ/, [ˈpe̞rnɑ]
• Rhymes: -ernɑ
• Syllabification^(key): per‧na

perna

1. (anatomy) spleen

• lien, splen (medical vocabulary)

• pernarutto

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese perna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin perna. Cognate with Portuguese perna and Spanish pierna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɾna̝/

perna f (plural pernas)

1. leg
   • 1435, A. López Carreira, Fragmentos de notarios, doc. E2-8:

     ... que aderençaran ao dito Goterre Afonso et que o dito Fernando de Mourelos que sacara a espada da beyna contra o dito Goterre Afonso por lo matar, et seus conpaneiros como lo viran sacar que o ajudaran contra o dito Goterre Afonso, do qual lle logo deran huna grande ferida en huna perna esqerda, en que o feriran debayxo do gionllo ata o qualquanar

     ... they approached said Goterre Afonso and that the mentioned Fernando de Mourelos extracted the sword from its scabbard against said Goterre Afonso, for killing him; and his companions, as they saw this, helped him against said Goterre Afonso, and consequently he gave him a large wound in the left leg, in which he injured him from under the knee till the heel

2. (anatomy) shin, the region between the knee and ankle

• coxa

• “perna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “perna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “perna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “perna” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “perna” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese perna. Cognate with Kabuverdianu perna.

perna

1. leg

From Portuguese perna.

perna

1. leg

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.na/, [ˈpɛrnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.na/, [ˈpɛrnä]

From Proto-Italic *persnā, from Proto-Indo-European *tpḗrsneh₂ (“heel”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πτέρνη (ptérnē), Sanskrit पार्ष्णि (pā́rṣṇi), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌽𐌰 (fairzna, “heel”), Persian پاشنه‎ (pâšne, “heel”).

perna f (genitive pernae); first declension

1. A haunch or ham together with the leg, gammon.
2. (of animals) A thigh-bone, with the meat upon it to the knee-joint, a leg of pork, a ham or gammon of bacon.
3. a kind of mussel

First-declension noun.

• pernārius

See perula.

perna f (genitive pernae); first declension

1. Alternative form of perula

First-declension noun.

• “perna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “perna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• perna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• perna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 789/1, “perna”

From Old Portuguese perna, from Latin perna, from Proto-Indo-European *tpḗrsneh₂ (“heel”).

• Hyphenation: per‧na

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perna f (plural pernas)

1. leg
2. stint

• perneta