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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of foreign origin. Compare Sogdian 𐼾𐼴𐽀𐼹𐼻𐼸 (pwrδnk), Bactrian πορλαγγο-ζινο (porlaggo-zino), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng), Persian پلنگ (palang), and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛ́dāku). See also πάρδαλις (párdalis) and πάνθηρ (pánthēr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpar.ðos/ → /ˈpar.ðos/
Noun
πάρδος • (párdos) m (genitive πάρδου); second declension
- (Koine, Byzantine) Synonym of πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard, panther”)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: pardus (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- πάρδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πάρδος 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
- “πάρδος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “πάρδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press