pean

See also: péan and peán

English

Etymology 1

Derived from Middle French penne (“feather”), from penna (“feather”); doublet of pen and penna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

pean (plural peans)

1. (heraldry) A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.

Adjective

pean (not comparable)

A coat of arms pean.

1. (heraldry): In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field. with gold spots

Translations

of black colour with gold spots on a coat of arms

• Danish: kontraguldhermelin
• Swedish: guldkontrahermelin

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.ən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːən

Noun

pean (plural peans)

1. Alternative spelling of paean.
   • 1843 February, I. D. W., “Association”, in James E. Ridgely, editor, The Covenant and Official Magazine of the Grand Lodge of the United States, I[ndependent] O[rder of] O[dd] F[ellows]: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Cause of Odd Fellowship, volume II, number 2, →OCLC, page 68:

     The barbarian, wandering in nature's wilds, plucking the fruits as they grow, or destroying the game for his meat, and quenching his thirst with the waters of the gurgling rill, may furnish the poet with a theme for a pean to the goddess of Natural Liberty; but he will be a barbarian still, and his children after him, will roam over the same uncultivated wastes, and sleep in the same caves and dens, until they learn to associate with others and combine their efforts for mutual good.

   • 2007, Michael J. Mazarr, “The Existentialist Diagnosis”, in Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity, Cambridge, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81:

     Antimodern romanticism is not primarily a complaint about lost nature; it is mainly a pean to lost values. Modernity is relativistic, the existentialists complain; it has lost a sense of real values, true courage, meaningful integrity.

Verb

pean (third-person singular simple present peans, present participle peaning, simple past and past participle peaned)

1. Alternative spelling of paean.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

pean (plural peans)

1. Alternative spelling of peen.

Verb

pean (third-person singular simple present peans, present participle peaning, simple past and past participle peaned)

1. Alternative spelling of peen.

Anagrams

• -pnea, neap, NEPA, Pena, NAPE, pena, pané, nape, pane

Basque

Noun

pean

1. inessive singular of pe

Estonian

Verb

pean

1. first-person singular present indicative of pidama

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.an/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛan
• Syllabification: pe‧an

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin paeān, from Ancient Greek παιᾱ́ν (paiā́n).

Noun

pean m inan

1. (Ancient Greece, historical) eulogy, paean (chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess)
2. (by extension) paean (enthusiastic expression of praise)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French péan. Named after French surgeon Jules-Émile Péan (1830–1898).

Noun

pean m inan

1. hemostat, pean

Declension

Declension of pean

	singular	plural
nominative	pean	peany
genitive	peanu	peanów
dative	peanowi	peanom
accusative	pean	peany
instrumental	peanem	peanami
locative	peanie	peanach
vocative	peanie	peany

Further reading

• pean in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pean in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French péan.

Noun

pean n (plural peane)

1. paean

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pean	peanul		peane	peanele
genitive-dative	pean	peanului		peane	peanelor
vocative	peanule			peanelor

Spanish

Verb

pean

1. inflection of peer:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative