pardus

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Icelandic

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

pardus m (genitive singular parduss, nominative plural pardusar)

  1. panther, leopard

Declension

[edit]
    Declension of pardus
m-s1 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

[edit]

Latin

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

pardus m (genitive pardī); second declension

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

Declension

[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pardus pardī
Genitive pardī pardōrum
Dative pardō pardīs
Accusative pardum pardōs
Ablative pardō pardīs
Vocative parde pardī

Derived terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • Asturian: pardu
  • Galician: pardo
  • Italian: pardo
  • Portuguese: pardo
  • Spanish: pardo
  • Middle English: parde
  • Hungarian: párduc

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • 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.