pant
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.
Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).
Noun[edit]
pant (plural pants)
- A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
- (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene viii], page 360, column 2:
- To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, / Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' the world, / Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all; / Through proof of harness to my heart, and there / Ride on the pants triumphing.
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References[edit]
- pant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “pant” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
Verb[edit]
pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- Dryden
- Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
- Shelley
- There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
- 1749, [John Cleland], Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
- Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed
- Dryden
- (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- Bible, Psalms xlii. 1
- As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
- Alexander Pope
- Who pants for glory finds but short repose.
- Bible, Psalms xlii. 1
- (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
- Herbert
- Then shall our hearts pant thee.
- Herbert
- (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- Alexander Pope
- The whispering breeze / Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
- Alexander Pope
Synonyms[edit]
- (breathe quickly or in a labored manner): gasp
- (long for): crave, desire, long for, pine for
- (long eagerly): crave, desire, long, pine
- (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence): palpitate, pound, throb
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Etymology 2[edit]
From pants
Noun[edit]
pant (plural pants)
- (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
- (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
- Pant leg
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Etymology 3[edit]
Unknown
Noun[edit]
pant (plural pants)
- a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England
References[edit]
- PMSA page with several examples
- OED 2nd edition
Anagrams[edit]
Czech[edit]
Noun[edit]
pant m
Middle English[edit]
Verb[edit]
pant
- Alternative form of panten
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr
Noun[edit]
pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta or pantene)
Related terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural panter, definite plural pantene)
- a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)
References[edit]
- “pant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr
Noun[edit]
pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta)
Related terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural pantar, definite plural pantane)
- a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)
References[edit]
- “pant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
pȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling па̏нт)
Declension[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr
Noun[edit]
pant n
- pledge, item deposited at a pawnshop or otherwise given as a security; money returned when a bottle or similar is recycled
Declension[edit]
| Declension of pant | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | pant | panten | panter | panterna |
| Genitive | pants | pantens | panters | panternas |
Welsh[edit]
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Noun[edit]
pant m (plural pantiau)
- hollow, depression, small valley, dingle, dell
Mutation[edit]
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| pant | bant | mhant | phant |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
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