Pansa

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Latin

Etymology

From pānsa (“person with wide feet”), from pandere (“to spread, to spread out”) +‎ -a (suffix forming agent nouns).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pānsa m sg (genitive Pānsae); first declension

  1. a cognomen used by the gens Vibia, Hirria, Appuleia, and others
    Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus
     

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Pānsa
genitive Pānsae
dative Pānsae
accusative Pānsam
ablative Pānsā
vocative Pānsa

References

  • “Pansa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Pansa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 110.
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