Πάν
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The deity has been argued to be of Indo-European origin; see Sanskrit पूषन् (pūṣan, “Pushan, literally ‘nourisher’”), a Vedic god associated with guarding and multiplying cattle, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂-us-ōn from *peh₂-.
In the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, it is claimed that Πάν (Pán) derives from πᾶν (pân), neuter nominative singular of πᾶς (pâs, “every”) because “he delighted all”, but the stems differ (genitive πάντος (pántos) versus Πάνος (Pános)).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pǎːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpan/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpan/
- (10th CE Medieval) IPA(key): /ˈpan/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpan/
Proper noun
[edit]Πᾱ́ν • (Pā́n) m (genitive Πᾱνός); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “Πάν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Πάν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Πάν” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Πάν”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020
Further reading
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂-
- Ancient Greek 1-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the third declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
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