penny – English noun declension

English noun forms of penny

Noun: penny
Singularpenny
Pluralpennies; pence

Sample Sentences

  • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen. [1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:]
  • We had not proceeded very far across the south cantilever when we saw a penny lying beside the track, and another a short distance further on. We were to find several more pennies, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for "good luck," while trains are crossing the bridge. [1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:]
  • However he lost out, as other business interests whom he had alienated by his efforts to squeeze every penny of profit from the canal, supported the construction of the railway. [2025 June 25, Christian Wolmar, “How slow boats gradually gave way to rail”, in RAIL, number 1038, page 57:]
  • Holy shit! A hundred and eleven pennies! At that point, that dog had more Lincoln in him than Mary Todd. [2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:]
  • A Treasury spokesperson said the government made its final order of penny blanks this month, and the United States Mint will continue to manufacture pennies only as long as an inventory of penny blanks exists. [2025 May 22, Chris Isidore and Matt Egan, “The Treasury unveils its plan to kill the penny”, in CNN Business:]
  • to turn an honest penny
  • What penny hath Rome borne, / What men provided, what munition sent? [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:]

Nouns inflected like penny

penny,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Pre-Greekder.?
3. Ancient Greek πᾰτᾰ́νη (pătắnē)bor.
4. Latin patina
5. Latin panna?
6. Latin pannus?
7. Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
8. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
9. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
10. Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
11. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
12. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
13. ?
14. Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
15. Proto-Germanic *panningaz
16. Proto-West Germanic *panning
17. Old English peniġ
18. Middle English peny
19. English penny
20. From Middle English peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening. See: Middle English Nouns 'peny'.

Verbs referencing "penny"

Finnish Nouns penny, French Nouns penny, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns penny, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns penny, German Nouns Penunze, Finnish Nouns penni, Danish Nouns penge, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns penge, Hungarian Nouns pénz, Slovak Nouns peniaze, Danish Nouns penning, Swedish Nouns penning, German Nouns Pfennig, Czech Nouns peníz, Russian Nouns пенни, Italian Nouns pennì.