penus

penus

1. conditional of peni

• penu, penum

From Proto-Italic *penos, from Proto-Indo-European *pén-os (“food”), from *pen-. Compare penes, Lithuanian penė́ti (“to feed”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.nus/, [ˈpɛnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.nus/, [ˈpɛːnus]

penus m or f (variously declined, genitive penī or penūs); second declension, fourth declension
penus n (genitive penoris); third declension

1. Provisions, food
2. The innermost part of a temple of Vesta, the sanctuary

• Penātes

• penes

• “penus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “penus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• penus 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)
• penus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

peine +‎ -us

penus m (oblique and nominative feminine singular penuse)

1. painful
   • c. 1150, Unknown author, La Chanson de Roland:

     « Deus, » dist li reis, « si penuse est ma vie ! »

     "God!" said the king, "so painful is my life!"

penus

1. predicative plural of pen