panicum

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From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”).

panicum (plural panicums)

1. Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.
   • 2008 January 18, Steve Bailey, “A Weekend Home That’s Straight Out of a Dream”, in New York Times‎:

     And his property might remind someone of the dunes of the East End of Long Island: nine acres of artfully placed native grasses like panicum and schizachyrium and meadow plants like rudbeckia and asters.

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• panicum at USDA Plants database

Uncertain, probably either from pānis (“bread; loaf”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to graze; to protect; to shepherd”)) or pānus (“ear of millet; thread wound on a bobbin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to twist; to weave”)) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.ni.kum/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ni.kum/,

pānicum n (genitive pānicī); second declension

1. Italian millet, foxtail millet (Setaria italica), panicgrass

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• pānicium

• French: panic
• Italian: panico
• Romanian: părâng, părinc

• “panicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “panicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• panicum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.