pardus

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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)

  1. panther, leopard

Declension

Declension of pardus (masculine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pardus pardusinn pardusar pardusarnir
accusative pardus pardusinn pardusa pardusana
dative pardusi, pardus pardusnum pardusum pardusunum
genitive parduss pardussins pardusa pardusanna

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

  1. pard: a male leopard
  2. (zoology) other mottled or spotted animals
  3. brown

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pardus pardī
genitive pardī pardōrum
dative pardō pardīs
accusative pardum pardōs
ablative pardō pardīs
vocative parde pardī

Derived terms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Asturian: pardu
  • Galician: pardo
  • Italian: pardo
  • Portuguese: pardo
  • Spanish: pardo
  • → Middle English: parde
  • → Hungarian: párduc

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.
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