pando

English

Etymology

Clipping of pandemic + -o.

Noun

pando

1. (Australia, slang) A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).
   • , London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-28:

     We have crunched Covid-19 to Covid; the specific coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is mostly now "coronavirus", and has been joined by "the pandemic" (for some in Australia, the "pando"), "'rona" and even "miss Rona".]

   • 2021 September 30, u/ThrustersOnFull, “what are some of the professions that are slowly dying ?”, in Reddit‎, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 2024-02-19:

     Had a radio job before the pando, now I don't. I went to school for it too. Now I gotta change gears and don't know howwwww

   • 2023 May 9, u/Magnus_Veritas, “CTA Hoses Train Cars Down With Fresh Piss”, in Reddit‎, r/chicago, archived from the original on 2023-05-09:

     Pre-pando things were really going well. It's such a shame

   • 2023 December 4, u/TimothyOilypants, “Out in the wild”, in Reddit‎:

     I really hope the next pando is more effective... ¶ I feel like COVID didn't come through on its promise.

Esperanto

Etymology

From French panda, Russian па́нда (pánda).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ando
• Hyphenation: pan‧do

Noun

pando (accusative singular pandon, plural pandoj, accusative plural pandojn)

1. panda

   Hyponyms: pandidino (“female panda cub”), pandido (“panda cub”), pandino (“she-panda”), virpando (“male panda”)

   Holonym: pandaro (“pack of pandas”)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin pandus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pando (feminine panda, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandas)

1. concave; caved in

   Synonym: afundido

Derived terms

• apandar

References

• “pando” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pando” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pando” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”). Cognate with pateō, Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.doː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.do/,

Verb

pandō (present infinitive pandere, perfect active pandī, supine passum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to spread or open (out), extend

   Synonyms: extendō, distendō, porrigō, prōlongō, prōtrahō, trahō, prōferō, explicō

2. (transitive) to unfold or expand
3. (transitive) to spread out to dry
4. (transitive) to expose, narrate

   Synonyms: referō, ferō, prōdō, trādō, dicitur

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• →? English: Pando

Etymology 2

From pandus (“turned”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

pandō (present infinitive pandāre, perfect active pandāvī, supine pandātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to bend, curve anything
2. (intransitive) to bend (oneself)

Conjugation

Descendants

• Spanish: pandar, apandar, empandar, pandear, pandeada
• From an unattested Vulgar Latin “in + *pindare”
  • Sicilian: mpinnari

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

pandō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pandus

References

• “pando1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pando2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pando”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pando in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pando in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set the sails: vela facere, pandere
    

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pandus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpando/
• Rhymes: -ando
• Syllabification: pan‧do

Adjective

pando (feminine panda, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandas)

1. crooked, bent
2. shallow (water)
3. sluggish, slow (moving slowly)
4. (El Salvador) unlucky (having bad luck)

Derived terms

Noun

pando m (plural pandos)

1. plain (open flat land between mountains)

   Synonym: llano

Further reading

• “pando”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014