Pansa

See also: pansa

Latin

Etymology

From pānsa (“person with wide feet”), from pandere (“to spread, to spread out”) +‎ -a (“forming agent nouns”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.sa/, [ˈpä̃ːs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.sa/, [ˈpänsä]

Proper noun

Pānsa m sg (genitive Pānsae); first declension

1. a cognomen used by the gens Vibia, Hirria, Appuleia, and others

   Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus

    

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Pānsa
Genitive	Pānsae
Dative	Pānsae
Accusative	Pānsam
Ablative	Pānsā
Vocative	Pānsa

References

• “Pansa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pansa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 110.