Pinna

From Latin pinna (“fin; mountain top”). This surname is typically Sardinian.

Pinna m or f by sense

1. a surname from Sardinian

• panni

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.na/, [ˈpɪnːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.na/, [ˈpinːä]

Pinna f sg (genitive Pinnae); first declension

1. A city of the Vestini situated on the eastern slope of the Apennines, now the town of Penne

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Pinnēnsis

• “Pinna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly