pardus

Icelandic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰartʏs/
• Rhymes: -artʏs

Noun

pardus m (genitive singular parduss, nominative plural pardusar)

1. panther, leopard

Derived terms

• pardusdýr

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), probably ultimately an Indo-Iranian borrowing related to Persian پلنگ (“panther”) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.dus/, [ˈpärd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.dus/, [ˈpärd̪us]

Noun

pardus m (genitive pardī); second declension

1. pard: a male leopard
2. (zoology) other mottled or spotted animals
3. brown

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pardus	pardī
Genitive	pardī	pardōrum
Dative	pardō	pardīs
Accusative	pardum	pardōs
Ablative	pardō	pardīs
Vocative	parde	pardī

Derived terms

Derived terms

• camelopardalis, camelopardus
• gattus pardus (cheetah)
• leopardus (leopard)
• pardalis

Descendants

• Asturian: pardu
• Galician: pardo
• Italian: pardo
• Portuguese: pardo
• Spanish: pardo
• → Middle English: parde
  • English: pard
• → Hungarian: párduc

See also

• panthera

References

• “pardus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pardus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pardus 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)
• pardus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.