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pardus

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Icelandic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpʰartʏs/
Rhymes: -artʏs

Noun

pardus m (genitive singular parduss, nominative plural pardusar)

panther, leopard

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

pardusdýr

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), probably ultimately an Indo-Iranian borrowing related to Persian (“panther”) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.dʊs]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.dus]

Noun

pardus m (genitive pardī); second declension

pard: a male leopard
(zoology) other mottled or spotted animals
brown

Declension

Second-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Descendants

Asturian: pardu
Galician: pardo
Italian: pardo
Portuguese: pardo
Spanish: pardo
→ Middle English: parde
- English: pard
→ Hungarian: párduc
⇒ Translingual: Pardosa

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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