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Icelandic
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos).
Pronunciation
Noun
pardus m (genitive singular parduss, nominative plural pardusar)
- panther, leopard
Declension
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), probably ultimately an Indo-Iranian borrowing related to Persian پلنگ (“panther”) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pardus m (genitive pardī); second declension
- pard: a male leopard
- (zoology) other mottled or spotted animals
- brown
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
References
- “pardus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pardus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pardus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pardus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.