panthera

See also: Panthera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /panˈtʰeː.ra/, [pän̪ˈt̪ʰeːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /panˈte.ra/, [pän̪ˈt̪ɛːrä]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr).

Noun

panthēra f (genitive panthērae); first declension

1. a panther

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	panthēra	panthērae
Genitive	panthērae	panthērārum
Dative	panthērae	panthērīs
Accusative	panthēram	panthērās
Ablative	panthērā	panthērīs
Vocative	panthēra	panthērae

Descendants

• → Belarusian: пантэ́ра (pantéra)
• → Bulgarian: панте́ра (pantéra)
• → Czech: panter
• → Dutch: panter
• → English: panther
• → Esperanto: pantero
• → Finnish: pantteri
• French: panthère
• Galician: pantera
• → Georgian: პანტერა (ṗanṭera)
• → German: Panther
• → Greek: πάνθηρας (pánthiras)
• → Hebrew: פַּנְתֵּר
• Italian: pantera
• → Japanese: パンサー
• → Latvian: pantera
• → Maori: panata
• Portuguese: pantera
• Spanish: pantera

References

“panthera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek πανθήρα (panthḗra), which is probably from Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, “all”) + θήρα (thḗra, “that which is hunted, game”).

Noun

panthēra f (genitive panthērae); first declension

1. the entire catch or capture by a hunter (e.g. of wildfowl)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	panthēra	panthērae
Genitive	panthērae	panthērārum
Dative	panthērae	panthērīs
Accusative	panthēram	panthērās
Ablative	panthērā	panthērīs
Vocative	panthēra	panthērae

Descendants

• → Italian: pantiere
• Old French: pantiere
  • Anglo-Norman: panter
    • → Middle English: panter
      • English: panter (obsolete)
      • ⇒ English: pantle (obsolete, regional)
• Gascon: pantiera ⇒ pandèla
• ⇒ Occitan: pantena

References

“panthera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “panthera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• panthera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• panthera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.