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Definition: Penny |
PennyAdjective1. (used in combination) priced as indicated; "`penny' is a combining form in such expressions as `sixpenny cakes'". 2. Priced at 1 cent; "penny candy". Noun1. A fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound. 2. A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "penny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Bible | Penny (Gr. denarion), a silver coin of the value of about 7 1/2d. or 8d. of our present money. It is thus rendered in the New Testament, and is more frequently mentioned than any other coin (Matt. 18:28; 20:2, 9, 13; Mark 6:37; 14:5, etc.). It was the daily pay of a Roman soldier in the time of Christ. In the reign of Edward III. an English penny was a labourer's day's wages. This was the "tribute money" with reference to which our Lord said, "Whose image and superscription is this?" When they answered, "Caesar's," he replied, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's" (Matt. 22:19; Mark 12:15). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of pennies, denotes unsatisfactory pursuits. Business will suffer, and lovers and friends will complain of the smallness of affection. To lose them, signifies small deference and failures. To find them, denotes that prospects will advance to your improvement. To count pennies, foretells that you will be business-like and economical. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Penny (in the sense of pound). Sixpenny, eightpenny, and tenpenny nails are nails of three sizes. A thousand of the first will weigh six pounds; of the second, eight pounds; of the third, ten pounds. Penny sometimes expresses the duodecimal part, as tenpenny and elevenpenny silver- meaning silver 10-12ths and 11-12ths fine. "One was to be tenpenny, another eleven, another sterling silver."- Weidenfeld: Secrets of the Adepts. Penny (A) (Anglo-Saxon, penning or penig). For many hundred years the unit of money currency, hence pening-moncgre (a money-changer). There were two coins so named, one called the greater = the fifth part of a shilling, and the other called the less = the 12th part of a shilling. My penny of observation (Love's Labour's Lost, iii. 1). My pennyworth of wit; my natural observation or mother-wit. Probably there is some pun or confusion between penetration and "penny of observation" or "penn'orth of wit." A penny for your thoughts. See Heywood's Dialogue, pt. ii. 4. (See Pennyworth.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Penny. "He gave me twelve bright new pennies," referring to the individual coins. "I paid him twelve pence," meaning a shilling. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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This article refers to the penny coin which existed from its introduction in England in the reign of Offa of Mercia in the eighth century until decimalisation of the currency in 1971. This article discusses the silver coins produced until 1820 (for later silver pennies, to the present day, please see the article on Maundy money), and the copper or bronze coins produced from 1797 to 1970. The silver penny was introduced to England around the year 785 by King Offa of Mercia, in the English midlands. The origin of the name penny comes from the Old English pennige (roughly pronounced 'penny-yeah', IPA [penije]). That in itself is cognate to the German pfennig, which was a German denomination. The coins were similar in size and weight to the continental deniers of the period. The abbreviation d. comes from the Roman denomination denarius and was used until the 1970s.Anglo-Saxon silver pennies were the currency used to pay the Danegeld, essentially protection money paid to the Vikings so that they would go away and not ravage the land: as an illustration of how heavy a burden the Danegeld was, more Anglo-Saxon pennies of the decades around the first Millennium have been found in Denmark than in England. In the reign of Ethelred the Unready (978-1016), some 40 million pennies were paid to the Danes, while King Canute (Knut) (1016-1035) paid off his invasion army with another 20 million pennies. It is estimated that the total amount of silver paid in Danegeld between 990 and 1015 was about 93 tons of silver, worth about £250,000 at the time, and equivalent to about £1.2 billion in today's money.
The penny initially contained 1/240th of a Troy pound (approx. 373 grams) of silver, i.e. about 1.55 grams. As the purity and weight of the coin was critical, the name of the moneyer who manufactured the coin, and at which mint, often appeared on the reverse side of the coin.
From the time of King Offa, the penny was the only denomination of coin minted in England for some five hundred years, until the attempted gold coinage issue of King Henry II, and the later issues of King Edward III.
Pennies by Period
- The Early Normans and the Anarchy (1066-1154)
- The Plantagenets (1154-1485)
- The Tudors (1485-1603)
- The Stuarts and the Commonwealth (1603-1714)
- The Hanoverians (1714-1837)
- Victoria (1837-1901)
- The Twentieth Century Penny (1901-1970)
For other denominations, see British coinage.
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A penny is a unit of currency.A penny is:
When dealing with British money, amounts of the decimal "new pence" less than £1 may be suffixed with "p," as in 2p, 5p, 26p, 72p. Pre-1971 amounts of less than 1/- (one shilling) were denoted with a "d" which derived from the term "denarius," as in 2d, 6d, 10d.
- a division of the British pound sterling or the Irish Pound (1971-2001), 100 pence = 1 pound
- a division of the British pound sterling or Irish Pound prior to February 15, 1971, and also the pre-decimalisation currencies of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
- the common name for a one-cent piece in the United States and Canada.
The plural of "penny" is "pence" when referring to a quantity of money and "pennies" when referring to a number of coins. Thus a coin worth five times as much as one penny is worth five pence, but it is not five pennies, since "five pennies" means five coins each of which is a penny. In the USA, "penny" is normally used only to refer to the coin; the quantity of money is a "cent". A coin worth five times as much as a penny is worth "five cents".
See also:
- 1943 Steel Penny
- History of the English penny coin, AD 785-1971
- United States coinage
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The United States one cent coin, commonly called a penny, is a unit of currency equaling one 1/100 of a United States dollar. Its current design features the profile of President Abraham Lincoln on the obverse and the Lincoln Memorial on the reverse. The Lincoln design has been in place since 1909. The original artist who executed Lincoln's portrait was Victor David Brenner.Coins minted after 1982 consist of 97% zinc, 3% copper, and ones before that were 95% copper, 5% zinc. This was changed because the intrinsic value of the coin started to rise above one cent. In 1943, during the Second World War, they were made of steel (for a short time) plated with zinc to resist rust.
The cent has gone through several designs over its two-hundred year history. Initially, it was much larger than it is today, about the size of the current United States half dollar coin.
See also: United States coinage
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Synonyms: PennySynonyms: cent (n), centime (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Money | Petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees. |
Value | Money's worth; penny; worth. |
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Screenplays | It was worth every penny. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) I pulled out a penny and some of us started talking about what would happen if I dropped it from up there and it landed on someone's head (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.) A penny. (Lady Jane; writing credit: Chris Bryant; David Edgar) Penny Benjamin (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash) Maybe there's a penny stuck in there (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) | |
Lyrics | Penny lover, don't you make me cry (Penny Lover; performing artist: Lionel Richie) You don't need a penny just to hang around, (DOWN ON THE CORNER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) Mongrels who ain't got a penny (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; performing artist: Elton John) If I found a lucky penny (Good Luck Charm; performing artist: Elvis Presley) I need you like a penny needs a wishing well (Wrapped Up In You; performing artist: Garth Brooks) | |
Clever | A penny saved is a government oversight. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Penny Gold (1973) In for a Penny (1972) Inn for a Penny (1972) Penny Wise (1970) Will Penny (1968) | |
Song Titles | Penny Lover (performing artist: Lionel Richie) Penny Lane (performing artist: The Beatles) | |
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 | Penny Dalton searches for trash during the collection phase of the restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Penny DeFino was recognized as one of 18 outstanding Department of Defense employees with disabilities recently. DeFino works as a Unix system administrator for the Defense Information Systems Agency at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (Courtesy pho. |
 | All for a penny. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Why is the paper five cents to-day, boy? : the regular price is only a penny : Ain't it worth four extra cents, lady, to read that the president has got some spunk after all?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Say! mister, I dropped a penny : will ya please tell the street cleanin' department about it? / /P.L. Crosby. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Penny Thompson, ex-slave, Ft. Worth. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Red Cross penny lunch makes hungry kids happy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Girl putting penny into vending machine, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Machines in penny arcade, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Seamen's Bank for Savings, 74 Wall St., New York City. Penny banks I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Penny Lane" by Alejandro González G. Commentary: "The Penny Lane street, Liverpool (England)." |
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 | Coin; coins; currency; change; penny; pennies; nickel; dime; quarter; half-dollar; fifty-cent piece; money; franc; peso. |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Heywood | A penny for your thought. |
Penny Press | A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument. |
Plutarch | Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. |
Robert Burton | Penny wise, pound foolish. |
Robert Pollok | With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And to let us see, that even absolute power, where it is necessary, is not arbitrary by being absolute, but is still limited by that reason, and confined to those ends, which required it in some cases to be absolute, we need look no farther than the common practice of martial discipline: for the preservation of the army, and in it of the whole common-wealth, requires an absolute obedience to the command of every superior officer, and it is justly death to disobey or dispute the most dangerous or unreasonable of them; but yet we see, that neither the serjeant, that could command a soldier to march up to the mouth of a cannon, or stand in a breach, where he is almost sure to perish, can command that soldier to give him one penny of his money; nor the general, that can condemn him to death for deserting his post, or for not obeying the most desperate orders, can yet, with all his absolute power of life and death, dispose of one farthing of that soldier's estate, or seize one jot of his goods; whom yet he can command any thing, and hang for the least disobedience; because such a blind obedience is necessary to that end, for which the commander has his power, viz. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He smiled habitually as a matter of business, and tried to be polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused a penny. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | When he put it down on the counter he had a penny with it. |
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Economic History | Uzbekistan | Many of Uzbekistan's rural inhabitants receive no regular cash income; they depend on kitchen gardens and barter to survive, and their only cash income comes from picking cotton in the autumn (at 14 soum, or about a penny and half, per kilo). (references) |
Malaysia | For example, both TMNet and MIMOS (via Jaring) charge approximately 2.5 Malaysian sens (less than one penny) per minute for Internet access, which is among the cheapest in the world. (references) | |
Hungary | Examples of foreign chains with operations in Hungary include Auchan (France), Metro (Germany), KIKA (Austria), Ikea (Sweden), Baumax (Germany), OBI (Germany), Humanic (Austria), Smatch (Belgium), Penny Market (UK), Cora (France), Marks & Spencer (UK), and Tesco (UK). (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. A penny saved is a penny to squander. A man is known by the company that he organizes. A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. Better late than before anybody has invited you. Example is better than following it. Half a loaf is better than a whole one if there is much else. Think twice before you speak to a friend in need. What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. Least said is soonest disavowed. He laughs best who laughs least. Speak of the Devil and he will hear about it. Of two evils choose to be the least. Strike while your employer has a big contract. Where there's a will there's a won't. |
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Lawrence Lindsey | Again, I think it depends on the job the person does. I don't think you can generalize. I think, again, some people are worth every penny they get paid and some aren't. That's the way it is. |
Rosie O'Donnell | I'm the spokesperson. I do the commercials with Penny Marshall for K-Mart and have for about five years. |
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| "Penny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.24% of the time. "Penny" is used about 1,799 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 65.24% | 1,174 | 6,572 |
| Noun (proper) | 34.76% | 625 | 10,366 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,799 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "penny" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Penny | First name Female | 71,000 | 271 |
| Penny | Last name | 4,000 | 3,218 |
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Penny." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Pen | Female | English | Penelope |
| Pene | Female | English | Penelope |
| Penny | Female | English | Penelope |
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Expressions using "penny": a penny for your thoughts ♦ a penny for your thoughts! ♦ a pretty penny ♦ a tidy penny ♦ Arles penny ♦ bright as a new penny ♦ cut smb. off with a penny ♦ Drink penny ♦ Earles penny ♦ earn a honest penny ♦ God's penny ♦ good penny ♦ Gripe penny ♦ half penny ♦ he hasn't a penny to his name ♦ he is a bad penny ♦ Hearth penny ♦ in for a penny in for a penny ♦ in for a penny in for a pound ♦ look at every penny ♦ look twice at every penny ♦ Luck penny ♦ new penny ♦ not worth a penny ♦ penny ante ♦ penny ante poker ♦ penny arcade ♦ penny bank ♦ penny buster ♦ penny cress ♦ penny dog ♦ penny dreadful ♦ penny father ♦ penny for your thoughts! ♦ penny gaff ♦ penny grass ♦ penny pincher ♦ penny post ♦ penny shaped crack ♦ penny stock ♦ penny trumpet ♦ penny wedding ♦ penny whistle ♦ penny wise ♦ penny wise and pound foolish ♦ pinch penny ♦ put a penny in the slot ♦ Rome penny ♦ spend a penny ♦ the penny dropped ♦ they're two a penny ♦ Tin penny ♦ To turn a penny ♦ To turn an honest penny ♦ turn a nice penny ♦ turn an honest penny ♦ two a penny ♦ twopenny half penny ♦ ward penny ♦ warping penny ♦ worth a penny. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "penny": penny-a-line, Penny-a-liner, penny-a-mile, penny-ante, penny-a-week, penny-bright, penny-counting, penny-farthing, penny-farthings, penny-for-the-guy, penny-gaffs, penny-in-the-pound, penny-in-the-slot, penny-in-the-slot machine, penny-pinch, penny-pinchers, penny-pinching, penny-royal, penny-sized, penny-teacher, penny-whistle, penny-wise. | |
Ending with "penny": catch-penny, Get-penny, god's-penny, half-penny, moor-penny, pay-penny, scrape-penny, ten-a-penny, Third-penny, true-penny, tuppence-ha'-penny, turn-penny, two-a-penny, two-penny. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
penny stock | 2,501 | penny phang | 109 |
penny saver | 1,496 | penny press | 107 |
penny | 935 | 1943 penny | 103 |
penny arcade | 645 | jc penny online | 96 |
penny flame | 399 | brown penny | 94 |
jc penny.com | 261 | penny lane | 90 |
arcade.com penny | 249 | jc penny outlet | 80 |
wheat penny | 231 | penny stock pick | 75 |
lancaster penny | 222 | candy penny | 75 |
joe penny | 197 | parker penny | 71 |
pinch a penny | 168 | penny from heaven | 66 |
penny pincher | 147 | tom penny | 66 |
jc penny catalog | 136 | penny stock list | 63 |
indian head penny | 133 | henny penny | 63 |
six penny none the richer | 126 | jc penny furniture | 62 |
50 penny | 120 | penny marshall | 59 |
sydney penny | 115 | three penny opera | 58 |
rare penny | 114 | penny whistle | 58 |
penny smith | 113 | six penny | 57 |
penny hardaway | 110 | jc penny store | 57 |
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| Language | Translations for "penny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | peni, cent (cent). (various references) | |
Arabic | مبلغ من المال (kitty, lump sum, sum), قطعة نقدية صغيرة (mite), بنس عملة نقدية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цент (cent, pence), на стойност едно пени, малка сума пари (hay, pence), за едно пени, пени (pence). (various references) | |
Chinese | 便士 . (various references) | |
Czech | penny, pence, peníz (coin, mite), malièkost (bagatelle, doit, exiguity, pittance, straw, trifle), cent (cent, quintal). (various references) | |
Danish | pengeurt (creeping jenny, monney wort, penny cress), pengebladet fredloes (creeping jenny, monney wort, penny cress), spiselig roerhat (boletus, cepe, flap mushroom, penny bun), spekulationspapir (cats and dogs, penny stock, speculative security), møntformet revne (penny shaped crack), Carl Johan (boletus, penny bun). (various references) | |
Dutch | stuiver, penny. (various references) | |
Esperanto | penco. (various references) | |
Farsi | کوچکترین واحدپول انگلیس وامریکا, شاهی (Gardencress, Kingship). (various references) | |
Finnish | penni, ropo (farthing, groat, mite). (various references) | |
French | penny (pence), pence, sou. (various references) | |
German | Penny, Groschen (cent, groat, groschen, ten-pfennig piece), Pfennig (copper, pfennig). (various references) | |
Greek | σεντ (cent), πέννα νόμισμα, πέννα (fountain pen, pen, pence, plectrum, quill), λεπτό (centime, minute). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אגורה (agora). (various references) | |
Hungarian | penny (pee), fitying (bawbee, dump, farthing, sou), fillér (bean, dump, mite), egycentes. (various references) | |
Indonesian | seri dolar. (various references) | |
Irish | pingin. (various references) | |
Italian | centesimo (brighter, cent, centesimal, centime, clearer, groat, hundredth). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 爪で拾って箕で零す (penny wise and pound foolish), ゲームの理論 (game all, game and set, game center, game count, game over, game point, gove over, penny arcade, the game is over, theory of games, video arcade), 一文商い (a penny store, business on a small scale). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つめでひろってみでこぼす (penny wise and pound foolish), いちもんあきない (a penny store, business on a small scale), ゲームセンター (game center, penny arcade, video arcade). (various references) | |
Korean | 페니 (Pennies). (various references) | |
Manx | ping (copper, copper money, pennyweight). (various references) | |
Papiamen | dòsplaka. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ennypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | real (absolute, actual, factual, incarnate, kingly, pence, positive, practicable, practical, real, regal, royal, sterling, tangible, true, unfeigned, veritable, very, visual), quantia insignificante (pence), moeda de um pêni, moeda de um centavo, importância em dinheiro (pence), dinheiro (bawbee, brass, cash, chink, currency, dibs, dough, ducat, gold, in cash, money, pelf, pence, pewter, pocket, purse, shekel, shekels, shiner, siller, splosh, tin, wad, wherewithal), centavo (cent, centavo, denarius, pence). (various references) | |
Romanian | penny (pennyworth), sfanţ (farthing, groat), lãscaie, câştig (advantage, bargain, benefit, boot, catch, draw, earnings, gain, godsend, hand, income, increment, lucre, prize, proceeds, profit, return, revenue, share, use, velvet, windfall). (various references) | |
Russian | пенни (pence, penney). (various references) | |
Scottish | peighinn, sgillinn (a penny, penny = a shilling Scots : sgillinn Shasunnach). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | peni (pence). (various references) | |
Spanish | penique (d, Robin). (various references) | |
Swedish | penny (pence). (various references) | |
Turkish | peni (pence), sent (cent, pence), metelik (bean, brass farthing, doit, farthing, rap, sou), kuruş (doit, mite, piastre). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пенні (denarius). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | văn sĩ rẻ tiền (penny-a-liner), văn sĩ ba xu (penny-a-liner), rẻ tiền (brummagem, cheap, gimcrack, penny-a-line), khôn từng xu (penny wise), đắn đo từng xu; khôn việc nhỏ (penny wise). (various references) | |
Welsh | ceiniog. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | asse, assi, Boletus edulis var. edulis, Lysimachia nummularia, puleglum, Thlaspi perfoliatum L.. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 20, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epideixate moi dhnarion tinoV ecei eikona kai epigrafhn apokriqenteV de eipon kaisaroV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ostendite mihi denarium cuius habet imaginem et inscriptionem respondentes dixerunt Caesaris |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ywað me anne peninc hwæs anlicnesse hæfþ he. and of ergewrit; þa cwædon higþæs caseres; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Shewe ye to me a peny; whos ymage and superscripcioun hath it? Thei answerden, and seiden to hym, The emperouris. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Shewe me a peny. Whose ymage and superscripcio hath it? They answered and sayde: Cesars. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Show me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar's. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Let me see a penny. Whose image and name are on it? And they said, Caesar's. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 20, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | "Paki-tai akog kuwarta. Kang kinsa man kining dagway ug ang nahisulat niini?" Sila mitubag, "Kang Cesar." |
| Croatian | "Pokažite mi denar." "Èiju ima sliku i natpis?" |
| Danish | Viser mig en Denar"; hvis Billede og Overskrift bærer den?" Men de svarede og sagde: "Kejserens." |
| Dutch | Toont Mij een penning; wiens beeld en opschrift heeft hij? En zij, antwoordende, zeiden: Des keizers. |
| Finnish | "Näyttäkää minulle denari. Kenen kuva ja päällekirjoitus siinä on?" He vastasivat: "Keisarin". |
| French | De qui porte-t-il l`effigie et l`inscription? De César, répondirent-ils. |
| German | Zeiget mir den Groschen! Wes Bild und Überschrift hat er? Sie antworteten und sprachen: Des Kaisers. |
| Hungarian | Mutassatok nékem egy pénzt; kinek a képe és felirata van rajta? És felelvén, mondának: A császáré. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Coba perlihatkan kepada-Ku sekeping uang perak. Gambar dan nama siapakah ini?" "Kaisar!" jawab mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | "Tunjukkanlah kepada-Ku suatu dinar. Rupa siapakah dan cap siapakah ini?" Maka sahut mereka itu, "Kaisar punya." |
| Italian | «Mostratemi un denaro: di chi è l'immagine e l'iscrizione?». Risposero: «Di Cesare». |
| Maori | Kia kite ahau i tetahi pene. No wai tona ahua me te tuhituhinga? Na ka whakahoki ratou, ka mea, No Hiha. |
| Norwegian | Vis mig en penning! Hvis billede og påskrift har den? De svarte: Keiserens. |
| Portuguese | Mostrai-me um denário. De quem é a imagem e a inscrição que ele tem? Responderam: De César. |
| Russian | рПЛБЦЙФЕ нОЕ ДЙОБТЙК: ЮШЕ ОБ ОЕН ЙЪПВТБЦЕОЙЕ Й ОБДРЙУШ? пОЙ ПФЧЕЮБМЙ: ЛЕУБТЕЧЩ. |
| Shuar | "Kuit itiatarum. ¿Yana yapi tura yana naari jui aarmait?" Tímiayi. Tutai nii tiarmiayi "uunt akupniunu." |
| Swahili | "Nionyesheni sarafu. Je, sura na chapa ni vya nani?" |
| Swedish | "Låten mig se en penning. Vems bild och överskrift bär den?" De svarade: "Kejsarens." |
| Uma | "Popohiloi-a ulu doi hampepa'! Lence hema pai' hanga' hema to hi doi tetu-e?" Ratompoi': "Lence pai' hanga' Kaisar." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "penny": pennycress, pennycresses, pennyroyal, pennyroyals, pennyweight, pennyweights, pennywhistle, pennywhistles, pennywort, pennyworth, pennyworths, pennyworts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "penny": catchpenny, halfpenny, pinchpenny, sixpenny, tenpenny, threepenny, truepenny, tuppenny, twopenny. (additional references) | |
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"Penny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eenny, enny, henny, menny, panni, panvy, pany, panyi, peany, peenie, pendy, penf, peni, Penly, penney, Penneys, penni, Pennia, pennic, pennie, pennys, penoy, penty, peny, peuny, pheny, pinzy, Plenn, Ponnie, ponny, Ppenny, prenn, punny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "penny" (pronounced pe"nē) |
| 3 | -e" n ē | antennae, any, Benny, Jenny, many. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-n-p-y" | |
-2 letters: pen, pye, yen, yep. | |
-3 letters: en, ne, pe, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-n-p-y" | |
+2 letters: spinney. | |
+3 letters: nonempty, nymphean, pendency, pungency, pyronine, sixpenny, spinnery, spinneys, tenpenny, tuppenny, twopenny. | |
+4 letters: halfpenny, hyphening, pantrymen, pennywort, phenytoin, phoneying, pinnately, plangency, pregnancy, pungently, pyronines, truepenny. | |
+5 letters: antipyrine, catchpenny, dependency, encrypting, encryption, incipiency, nonpayment, penitently, pennycress, pennyroyal, pennyworth, pennyworts, pensionary, permanency, pertinency, phenytoins, phrensying, pinchpenny, plangently, pregnantly, repugnancy, threepenny. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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