πάρδαλις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πόρδαλις (pórdalis)

Etymology

Borrowed from a foreign eastern language. Compare various Indo-Iranian terms like Sogdian 𐼾𐼴𐽀𐼹𐼻𐼸 (pwrδnk), Bactrian πορλαγγο-ζινο (porlaggo-zino), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng), Persian پلنگ (palang), and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛ́dāku). See also πάνθηρ (pánthēr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pár.da.lis/ → /ˈpar.ða.lis/ → /ˈpar.ða.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pár.da.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.da.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ða.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ða.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ða.lis/

Noun

πᾰ́ρδᾰλῐς • (párdalis) f (genitive πᾰρδᾰ́λεως); third declension

1. leopard
2. panther

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πᾰ́ρδᾰλῐς; τῆς πᾰρδᾰ́λεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰ́ρδᾰλῐς hē párdalis	τὼ πᾰρδᾰ́λει tṑ pardálei	αἱ πᾰρδᾰ́λεις hai pardáleis
Genitive	τῆς πᾰρδᾰ́λεως tês pardáleōs	τοῖν πᾰρδᾰλέοιν toîn pardaléoin	τῶν πᾰρδᾰ́λεων tôn pardáleōn
Dative	τῇ πᾰρδᾰ́λει têi pardálei	τοῖν πᾰρδᾰλέοιν toîn pardaléoin	ταῖς πᾰρδᾰ́λεσῐ / πᾰρδᾰ́λεσῐν taîs pardálesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πᾰ́ρδᾰλῐν tḕn párdalin	τὼ πᾰρδᾰ́λει tṑ pardálei	τᾱ̀ς πᾰρδᾰ́λεις tā̀s pardáleis
Vocative	πᾰ́ρδᾰλῐ párdali	πᾰρδᾰ́λει pardálei	πᾰρδᾰ́λεις pardáleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καμηλοπάρδαλις (kamēlopárdalis)

Related terms

• πάρδος (párdos)
• παρδαλέη (pardaléē)

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲡⲁⲣⲇⲁⲗⲓⲥ (pardalis)
• → Hebrew: ברדלס
• → Latin: pardalis
• ⇒ Greek: παρδαλός (pardalós)

Further reading

• “πάρδαλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πάρδαλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πάρδαλις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πάρδαλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πάρδαλις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3917 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • leopard idem, page 485.