pan-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pan"

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πᾰν- (pan-).

Prefix

pan-

1. Used to form higher clades with one main member.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πᾰν- (pan-), combining form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”).

Prefix

pan-

1. all

Usage notes

• An initial capital may be used when this prefix attaches to an already capitalized word: e.g. pan-African or Pan-African.

Synonyms

• (all): al-/all-, omni-

Coordinate terms

• -wide

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with pan-

terms derived from pan-

• panacea
• panchromatic
• pancreas
• pandect
• pandemic
• pandemonism
• pandemonium
• pandeism
• panendeism
• panentheism
• panophobia
• panopticon
• panoply
• panorama
• panpsychism
• pansentience
• pansexual
• pantheism
• pantheon
• pantograph
• pantomime

Translations

a combining form meaning "all"

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泛 (zh) (fàn)

• Danish: pan-, al-, fælles-
• Dutch: pan- (nl), al- (nl)
• Finnish: yleis-, pan-
• Galician: pan- (gl)
• German: pan- (de)
• Greek: παν- (el) (pan-)
• Hungarian: pán- (hu)
• Irish: pan-
• Japanese: 汎 (ja) (はん, han-)
• Korean: 범 (ko) (beom-)
• Malay: pan-
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pan-

  Nynorsk: pan-

• Portuguese: pan- (pt)
• Russian: пан- (ru) (pan-), все- (vse-), обще- (obšče-)

Anagrams

• -nap, ANP, NAP, NPA, PNA, nap

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• pang-, pam-

Prefix

pan-

1. Instrumentative case of the noun - a tool or an instrument that is used to perform the action expressed by the root

   ‎pan- + ‎takop (“a cover”) → ‎pantakop (“an instrument used to cover something”)

Czech

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

Czech terms prefixed with pan-

Further reading

• pan- in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• pan- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English pan-), ultimately from Ancient Greek πᾰν- (pan-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑn-/, [ˈpɑ̝n-]

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

French

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

French terms prefixed with pan-

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan/, [pʰän]

• Audio

  (file)

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

German terms prefixed with pan-

• Pangenesis

Irish

Alternative forms

• pain-

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

Irish terms prefixed with pan-

Italian

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

Italian terms prefixed with pan-

Anagrams

• NAP

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân).

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with pan-

References

• “pan-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pan-” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân).

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with pan-

References

• “pan-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɐ̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐn/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃
• Hyphenation: pan

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

Portuguese terms prefixed with pan-

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân), neuter form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”).

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

   Synonyms: omni-, todo

Derived terms

Spanish terms prefixed with pan-

Further reading

• “pan-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân).

Prefix

pan-

1. pan-

Derived terms

Swedish terms prefixed with pan-

Tagalog

Prefix

pan- (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔)

1. Alternative form of pang-, if the root starts with alveolar consonants, such as ⟨d⟩, ⟨l⟩, ⟨n⟩, ⟨r⟩, ⟨s⟩, or ⟨t⟩, which sometimes gets nasally assimilated to the prefix ending when starts with alveolar consonants, ⟨s⟩, ⟨t⟩, or ⟨d⟩.

   ‎pan- + ‎digma (“war”) → ‎pandigma (“meant for war”)

   ‎pan- + ‎diwa (“gist”) → ‎pandiwa (“verb”)

   ‎pan- + ‎lasa (“flavor”) → ‎panlasa (“taste”)

   ‎pan- + ‎samantala (“while”) → ‎pansamantala (“temporary”)

   ‎pan- + ‎sampalataya (“belief”) → ‎pananampalataya (“faith”)

   ‎pan- + ‎takip (“cover”) → ‎pantakip (“an instrument used to cover something”)

   ‎pan- + ‎talo (“defeat”) → ‎panalo (“victory”)

Usage notes

• When used before root initials /d/, /s/, or /t/, the said initials sometimes undergo nasal assimilation to the prefix ending.

  ‎pan- + ‎damit (“clothing”) → ‎pananamit (“act of wearing clothes”)

  ‎pan- + ‎sulat (“writing”) → ‎panulat (“writing instrument”)

  ‎pan- + ‎tinda (“sale”) → ‎paninda (“merchandise”)

• Native speakers sometimes use the prefix pang- by default, instead of pan- without any morpheme change to the word.

  ‎pang- + ‎sulat (“writing”) → ‎pangsulat (literally “for writing”)

  ‎pang- + ‎takip (“cover”) → ‎pangtakip (literally “for covering”)

Derived terms

Tagalog terms prefixed with pan-

Further reading

• “pan-”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• https://learningtagalog.com/grammar/nouns/noun_affixes/pang.html