Pantheon

See also: pantheon and panthéon

English

View from the entrance in the 2nd c. (hypothetical reconstruction, 19th c.)

The Pantheon in Rome today.

Etymology

From Latin Pantheon, from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pántheion, “a temple of all gods”), neuter of πάνθειος (pántheios, “of or common to all gods”), from πᾶν (pân, “all, everything”) +‎ θείος (theíos, “of or for the gods”), from θεός (theós, “god”).

Proper noun

the Pantheon

1. The circular Roman temple dedicated to all the gods in 27 BCE in Rome, rebuilt c. 125 CE and later consecrated as church.

Derived terms

• pantheon

Translations

Translations

• Arabic:بَانْثِيُون m (bānṯiyūn)

  Hijazi Arabic: بانثيون m (bānṯiyōn, pānṯiyōn)

• Catalan: panteó (ca) m
• Esperanto: Panteono
• German: Pantheon (de) n
• Italian: Pantheon m
• Polish: Panteon m
• Spanish: Panteón m

Further reading

• Pantheon, Rome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pántheion, “a temple of all gods”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanteɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Pantheon n (strong, genitive Pantheons, plural Pantheons)

1. pantheon

Declension

Declension of Pantheon [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Pantheon	die	Pantheons
genitive	eines	des	Pantheons	der	Pantheons
dative	einem	dem	Pantheon	den	Pantheons
accusative	ein	das	Pantheon	die	Pantheons

Latin

Alternative forms

• Panthē̆um

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pántheion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /panˈtʰeː.on/, [pän̪ˈt̪ʰeːɔn] or IPA^(key): /ˈpan.tʰe.on/, [ˈpän̪t̪ʰeɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /panˈte.on/, [pän̪ˈt̪ɛːon] or IPA^(key): /ˈpan.te.on/, [ˈpän̪t̪eon]

Proper noun

Panthē̆on n sg (genitive Panthē̆ī); second declension

1. Pantheon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Panthē̆on
Genitive	Panthē̆ī
Dative	Panthē̆ō
Accusative	Panthē̆on
Ablative	Panthē̆ō
Vocative	Panthē̆on

Descendants

Descendants

• → English: Pantheon, pantheon
• → Finnish: pantheon
• → French: panthéon (learned)
• → German: Pantheon
• → Greek: πάνθεον (pántheon)
• → Macedonian: пантеон (panteon)
• → Polish: Panteon, panteon
• → Portuguese: panteão (learned)
• → Romanian: panteon (learned)
• → Russian: пантео́н (panteón)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pànteōn
• → Slovene: panteon
• → Spanish: Panteón, panteón (learned)
  • → Tagalog: panteon
• → Swedish: panteon
• → Turkish: panteon
• → Ukrainian: пантео́н (panteón)

References

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