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English
Etymology
From Latin pantomīmus.
Noun
pantomimus (plural pantomimi)
- (historical) A male pantomime performer in Ancient Rome.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παντόμιμος (pantómimos).
Noun
pantomīmus m (genitive pantomīmī); second declension
- pantomime performer (male)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “pantomimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pantomimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pantomimus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pantomimus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin