pannicle

English

Etymology

From Middle French pannicle, and its source, Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle (plural pannicles)

1. (anatomy, zoology) A membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal.
2. (obsolete, medicine) A pannus.
3. (obsolete, rare) The skull.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     To him he turned, and with rigour fell / Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell, / That to the chin he cleft his head in twaine [...].

Anagrams

• pinnacle

Middle French

Etymology

From Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle f (plural pannicles)

1. pannicle (membrane)

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle oblique singular, f (oblique plural pannicles, nominative singular pannicle, nominative plural pannicles)

1. pannicle (membrane)