pard

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː(ɹ)d/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

From Middle English parde, from Old French, from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos), possibly of Iranian origin and related to other Sanskrit and Ancient Greek terms (see leopard).

pard (plural pards)

1. (archaic, literary) A leopard; a panther.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , lines 1047-49:

     Then a soldier,
     Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
     Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel …

   • 1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book III:

     Ten Brace, and more, of Greyhounds, snowy fair,
     And tall as Stags, ran loose, and cours'd around his Chair,
     A Match for Pards in flight, in grappling, for the Bear

   • 1813, John Mason Good, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, page 41:

     In a mistake of the gall-bladder for some part of South America it is mostly found in the pard

   • 1902, Richard Thayer Holbrook, Dante and the Animal Kingdom:

     St. Jerome takes the pard of Jeremiah to mean the onslaught of Alexander upon India. His contemporary, St. Ambrose, avers that the pard’s variety of hue signifies the various impulses of the soul.

   • 2014 June 15, Desmond Morris, Leopard, Reaktion Books, →ISBN:

     Centuries ago it was believed that the leopard was a cross between a lion and a pard, hence its title of leo-pard. Some authorities said that a pard was another name for a panther and others stated that a panther was a female leopard. The relationship between the pard, the panther and the leopard kept changing until, at last, the great Dr Johnson in his 1760 dictionary declared bluntly that a panther was a pard and that a pard was a leopard. In other words, the three animals were one and the same. After Johnson's time the pard faded into history, but the panther managed to survive .

From pardner (“partner”), by shortening.

pard (plural pards)

2. (colloquial) Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation
   • 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw‎:

     He had long believed, in secret, that his old pard, Tom Terror, was the leader of the Thugs that infested the famous pass; he was confident of it now, and it would be safe to say that, as he rode along, his neck did not itch as formerly.

   • 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Watches:

     'He's my pard, and you shall not bully him,' he cried.

   • 1914, Bram Stoker, The Squaw:

     The American thrust a gold piece into his hand, saying: 'Take it, pard! it's your pot; and don't be skeer'd. This ain't no necktie party that you're asked to assist in!'

• Drap, adRP, drap, prad

From Latin pardus (“male leopard”).

• IPA^(key): /paʁ/

pard m (plural pards)

1. serval

• lynx pard (“Iberian lynx”)

From Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos)

pard m

1. leopard
   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil:

     Hwæt ðā God ġeworhte ðurh his wunderlīċan mihte eall nȳtencynn on heora cynrynum, and ðā wildan dēor ðe on wudum eardiað, and eall ðæt fīðerfōte byð of ðǣre foresǣdan eorðan, and eall wyrmcynn ðā ðe crēopende bēoð, and ðā rēðan lēon, ðe hēr on lande ne bēoð, and ðā swiftan tigres, and ðā syllican pardes, and ðā eġeslīċan beran, and ðā ormǣtan ylpas.

     Then, through his wonderful might, God created all the kinds of animals according to their kinds, and the wild animals that dwell in the woods, and all the four-footed creatures of the aforementioned earth, and all the kinds of creeping reptiles, and the savage lions, which do not live here, and the swift tigers, and the marvelous leopards, and the fearful bears, and the huge elephants.

Cognate with Persian پل (pol), from Proto-Iranian *pr̥tuš.

pard

1. bridge

pard (nominative plural pards)

1. forgiveness