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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of foreign origin, compare Sogdian 𐼾𐼴𐽀𐼹𐼻𐼸 (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng), Persian پلنگ (palang), and Hittite 𒊊𒌉𒀸 (parsnaš, “leopard”). See also πάρδαλις (párdalis). A common folk etymology derives it from πᾰν- (pan-, “all”) + θήρ (thḗr, “beast”) or θήρα (thḗra, “hunt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pán.tʰɛːr/ → /ˈpan.θir/ → /ˈpan.θir/
Noun
πᾰ́νθηρ • (pánthēr) m (genitive πᾰ́νθηρος); third declension
- panther
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “πάνθηρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πάνθηρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πάνθηρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πάνθηρ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Boisacq, Émile (1916) “πάνθηρ”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 745
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.