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

Indo-Iranian[1], cognate with Estonian põrn (“spleen”)

• Hyphenation: per‧na
• IPA^(key): /ˈpernɑ/

perna

1. (anatomy) spleen

• lien, splen (medical vocabulary)

• pernarutto

From Latin perna.

perna f (plural pernas)

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

• coxa

From Portuguese perna. Cognates with Kabuverdianu perna.

perna

1. leg

From Portuguese perna.

perna

1. leg

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

From the Proto-Indo-European *tpḗrsneh₂ (“heel”). Cognates include the Ancient Greek πτέρνη (ptérnē), Sanskrit पार्ष्णि (pā́rṣṇi), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌽𐌰 (fairzna, “heel”) and 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.

• pernārius

See perula.

perna f (genitive pernae); first declension

1. Alternative form of perula

First declension.

• 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, 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 *persneh₂- (“heel”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɾ.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: per‧na

perna f (plural pernas)

1. leg
2. stint

• perneta