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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Reduplication of πᾶν (pân), neuter nominative singular (here used adverbially) of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every, whole”), with labial assimilation. This type of iterative compound is vanishingly rare in Ancient Greek, with only a handful furthermore known from Mycenaean Greek.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pám.pan/ → /ˈpam.pan/ → /ˈpam.ban/
Adverb
πάμπαν • (pámpan)
- wholly, altogether, quite
References
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Tribulato, Olga (2015) Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds: Their Diachronic Development Within the Greek Compound System, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 67-68
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