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pent

1  [pent]
Use Pent in a Sentence
–verb
1. a pt. and pp. of pen 2 .
–adjective
2. shut in; confined.
Origin:
ptp. of late ME pend (now obs.), var. of pen 2 (v.); cf. spend

pent

2  [pent]
–noun
penthouse (def. 4).
Origin:
by shortening

Pent.

 
Pentecost.

pen

1  [pen] noun, verb, penned, pen⋅ning.
–noun
1. any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
2. a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.
3. such a penpoint with its penholder.
4. fountain pen.
5. ball-point pen.
6. the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship: The pen is mightier than the sword.
7. a person's style or quality of writing: He writes with a witty, incisive pen.
8. a writer: I leave this story to abler pens.
9. the profession of writing: a master of the pen.
10. stylus (def. 3).
11. Ornithology.
a. a quill.
b. a pinfeather.
12. something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
13. Zoology. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.
–verb (used with object)
14. to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing: to pen an essay.
15. to draw with or as with a pen: to pen a sketch.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME penne < OF penne pen, feather < LL penna, L: feather

Related forms:
penlike, adjective
penner, noun

pen

2  [pen] noun, verb, penned or pent, pen⋅ning.
–noun
1. a small enclosure for domestic animals.
2. animals so enclosed: We have a pen of twenty sheep.
3. an enclosure used for confinement or safekeeping: We have built several pens to hold our harvest of corn.
4. playpen.
5. bull pen.
6. a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines.
–verb (used with object)
7. to confine in or as in a pen.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME penne, OE penn (in compounds); perh. akin to pin; (v.) ME pennen, deriv. of the n.

penta-

 
a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, meaning “five” (Pentateuch); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (pentavalent).
Also, especially before a vowel, pent-.

Origin:
< Gk pent-, penta-, comb. forms repr. pénte five

pent⋅house

  [pent-hous]
–noun, plural -hous⋅es  [-hou-ziz] .
1. an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
2. any specially designed apartment on an upper floor, esp. the top floor, of a building.
3. a structure on a roof for housing elevator machinery, a water tank, etc.
4. Also called pent, pen⋅tice  [pen-tis] . a shed with a sloping roof, or a sloping roof, projecting from a wall or the side of a building, as to shelter a door.
5. any rooflike shelter or overhanging part.
6. shed roof.
7. Court Tennis. a corridor having a slanted roof and projecting from three walls of the court.
Origin:
1520–30; alter. (by folk etymology) of ME pentis < OF apentiz, equiv. to apent ptp. of apendre to hang against (see appendant ) + -iz (F -is) < VL *-ātīcium, n. use of neut. of *-ātīcius, equiv. to L -āt(us) -ate 1 + -īcius adj. suffix

Related forms:
penthouselike, adjective
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pen 2   (pěn)   
n.  

    1. A fenced enclosure for animals.

    2. The animals kept in such an enclosure.

    3. Any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes.

  2. A repair dock for submarines.

tr.v.   penned or pent (pěnt), pen·ning, pens
To confine in or as if in a pen. See Synonyms at enclose.

[Middle English, from Old English penn.]
pent   (pěnt)   
v.  A past tense and a past participle of pen2.
adj.  Penned or shut up; closely confined.
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Slang Dictionary
pen

  1. n.
    a penitentiary; prison. (Underworld.) : Bart got sent to the pen for fifteen years.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

pen  (1)
"writing implement," c.1300, from O.Fr. penne "quill pen, feather," from L. penna "feather," from PIE *petna-, suffixed form of base *pet- "to rush, fly" (see petition). From the same base comes suffixed form *petra-, source of Skt. patram "wing, feather," Gk. pteron "wing," O.C.S. pero "pen," O.N. fjöðr, O.E. feðer (see feather). In later Fr., this word means only "long feather of a bird," while the equivalent of Eng. plume is used for "writing implement," the senses of the two words thus reversed from what they are in English. The verb is 1490, from the noun. Pen-pal first recorded 1938, gradually replacing earlier pen-friend (1933). Pen-and-ink (adj.) is attested from 1676.

pent 
"kept in, confined," c.1550, variant of penned, pp. of the verb from pen (2).

penta- 
comb. form meaning "five," from Gk. penta- (before a vowel, pent-), from pente "five," related to Aeolian pempte (see five).

penthouse 
M.E. pendize, c.1325, from Anglo-Fr. pentiz, aphetic of O.Fr. apentis "attached building, appendage," from M.L. appendicium, from L. appendere "to hang." Modern spelling is from 1530, by folk etymology influence of M.Fr. pente "slope," and Eng. house (the meaning at that time was "attached building with a sloping roof or awning"). Originally a simple structure (M.E. homilies describe Jesus' birthplace in the manger as a "penthouse"); meaning "apartment or small house built on the roof of a skyscraper" first recorded 1921, from which time dates its association with luxury.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

penta- or pent-
pref.

  1. Five: pentameter.

  2. Containing five atoms, molecules, or groups: pentose.

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