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But as the pentis became used more for habitation, it is easy to see how people misperceived what they were hearing as "penthouse."
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Our modern word penthouse, for example, has changed significantly from its Middle English form pentis, which contained no suggestion of house.
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The new form made sense, it caught on, and the original pentis soon lost all currency.
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EXemplariorumvarietashicprobeadoclif virh diftinSla eft, & rmlhbi non nafatur Aurkttla murts, & perinde a pentis nofci - tatur.
Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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(vehicuio pensili et commodiora aiiis)! ad sacra iudosgue, * car* pentis festo profestoque uie» reniur, Liv.
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