Pandopa wrote:
> "Luca Pinotti"
> >> Ken Knecht wrote:
> >>> I assume it's a pasta shape. I looked in Google but while seeing lots of
> >>> recipes I couldn't find a description.
> >>
> >> Penne means pen (or pencil), I think, and that's the shape of the
> >> pasta. But, I'm not sure.
> > Penna (penne pl.): feather, plume, pen, quill.
>
> The shape of pasta "penne" it's more similar to a pen (pencil) not to a
> plume
> Pandora

Nope. Penne is so named because it is representitive of a plume, a
quill pen (a pen made from a feather)... the modern pencil had not yet
been invented at the time of the penne designation for that particular
pasta configuration. I'll let yoose investigate the etymology for
pencil.

M-W

pen
noun
Etymology: Middle English penne, from Middle French, feather, pen, from
Latin penna, pinna feather; akin to Greek pteron wing -- more at
FEATHER
1 : an implement for writing or drawing with ink or a similar fluid: as
a : QUILL
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Sheldon