Pandora
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Etymology
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Proper noun
Pandora f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Entomophthoraceae – certain fungi not placed within a phylum.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Eomycota - subkingdom; Zygomycota - phylum; Entomophthoromycotina - subphylum; Entomophthorales - order; Entomophthoraceae - family
Hypernyms
- (genus): Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. - type species
References
Pandora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pandora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Entomophthoraceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra, “all gifts”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pandora
- (Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.
- (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.
- (astronomy) 55 Pandora, a main belt asteroid.
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Basque
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pandora f
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora f
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora f
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora f
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Japanese
Romanization
Pandora
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandōra f sg (genitive Pandōrae); first declension
- Pandora
- (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia, 36, 19 — C. Plini Secundi naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Ianus. Vol. V. Libb. XXXIII–XXXVII. Lipsia, 1878, p. 108:
- in basi autem quod caelatum est Pandoras genesin appellavit, di sunt nascenti adstantes XX numero.
- The Natural History of Pliny. Translated, with copious notes and illustrations by the late John Bostock and H. T. Riley. Vol. VI. With general index. London, 1857, p. 311:
- To the story chased upon the pedestal of the statue the name of the "Birth of Pandora"29 has been given; and the figures of new-born30 gods to be seen upon it are no less than twenty in number.
29 "Pandoras Genesis."
30 Sillig is of opinion that this passage is corrupt, and is inclined to think, with Panofka, that the reading should be "nascenti adstantes," – gods "standing by the new-born" Pandora
- (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia, 36, 19 — C. Plini Secundi naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Ianus. Vol. V. Libb. XXXIII–XXXVII. Lipsia, 1878, p. 108:
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Pandōra |
Genitive | Pandōrae |
Dative | Pandōrae |
Accusative | Pandōram |
Ablative | Pandōrā |
Vocative | Pandōra |
References
- “Pandora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pandora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Lithuanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora f
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Luxembourgish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora f
Norwegian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora f
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora f
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pandora f
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pandóra f (Cyrillic spelling Пандо́ра)
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pandora f
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Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Proper noun
Pandora
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