The story
- Latin · borrowed frompannus“cloth”
- English todaypannus
Borrowed from Latin pannus (“cloth”). Doublet of pagne and pane.
Words from the same roots
Latinpannus all →
panelpane
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pannus
Today it means: A hanging flap of skin or other tissue, especially one covering the cornea (in trachoma) or cartilage (in rheumatoid arthritis). Full definition →
Latin pannus