pantex

Latin

Etymology

Probably from or related to panus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.teks/, [ˈpän̪t̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.teks/, [ˈpän̪t̪eks]

Noun

pantex m (genitive panticis); third declension

1. (usually in the plural) belly, paunch, guts

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pantex	panticēs
Genitive	panticis	panticum
Dative	panticī	panticibus
Accusative	panticem	panticēs
Ablative	pantice	panticibus
Vocative	pantex	panticēs

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: pãntic, pãnticã
  • Megleno-Romanian: pǫntiți
  • Romanian: pântece
• Gallo-Italic
  • Ligurian: pansa
  • Lombard: panza
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: panza
  • Italian: pancia
  • Neapolitan: panza (possibly via Spanish panza or another language)

    Tarantino: panze

  • Sassarese: panza
  • Sicilian: panza (probably via Spanish panza or Occitan pança)
  • ⇒ Dalmatian: panzaita
  • ⇒ Neapolitan: pántici
  • →⇒ English: labonza (probably via Neapolitan or Sicilian la panza)
• Oïl
  • Old French: pance
    • Angevin: ponse
    • French: panse
    • Walloon: panse
    • → Middle Dutch: pense
      • Dutch: pens
        • Afrikaans: pens
    • → Middle English: paunce
      • English: paunce
    • → Middle High German: panze
      • German: Pansen
      • Central Franconian:

        Hunsrik: Panz

        Ripuarian: Panz

      • Luxembourgish: Panz
  • Old Northern French: panche
    • Picard: panche
    • →? Galician: panchoz
    • → Middle English: paunche
      • English: paunch
      • Scots: painch
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: panxa
  • Occitan: pança
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: panze
  • Romansch: panza
• Venetian: pansa, pança
  • → Albanian: plëndës (blended with Old Venetian *splenza (“spleen”))
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: pancha
  • Mozarabic:
    • → Spanish: pancho
      • → Galician: pancho
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pança
    • Galician: panza
    • Portuguese: pança
  • Old Spanish: pança
    • Spanish: panza

References

• “pantex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pantex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.