panic

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 Related terms 2 Czech 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Related terms 3 Slovak 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Related terms

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From Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek πανικός (“‘pertaining to Pan’”). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.

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• (UK) IPA: /ˈpanɪk/
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  Rhymes: -ænɪk

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panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
2. Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 pp. 57-8:

     All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.

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panic (plural panics)

1. Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
2. (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
   • 2008 July 11, Romaine Bostick, “Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Are Sound; Panic Unwarranted, Dodd Says”, Bloomberg:

     Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are sound, have several options for capital and liquidity, and the "facts don't warrant" the negative reaction by investors, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said. / "There is sort of a panic going on, and that is not what ought to be," Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, said at a press conference in Washington today. "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were never bottom feeders in the residential mortgage market."

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• panic attack
• panic button
• panic disorder
• panic room

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to panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)

1. To feel overwhelming fear.

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• panicky

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panic m.

1. male virgin

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• panna f.

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panic m.

1. male virgin

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• panna f.