πάρδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of foreign origin. Compare Sogdian 𐼾𐼴𐽀𐼹𐼻𐼸 (pwrδnk), Bactrian πορλαγγο-ζινο (porlaggo-zino), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng), Persian پلنگ (palang), and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛ́dāku). See also πάρδαλις (párdalis) and πάνθηρ (pánthēr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ðos/ → /ˈpar.ðos/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ðos/

Noun

πάρδος • (párdos) m (genitive πάρδου); second declension

1. (Koine, Byzantine) Synonym of πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard, panther”)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ πᾰ́ρδος; τοῦ πᾰ́ρδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πᾰ́ρδος ho párdos	τὼ πᾰ́ρδω tṑ párdō	οἱ πᾰ́ρδοι hoi párdoi
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰ́ρδου toû párdou	τοῖν πᾰ́ρδοιν toîn párdoin	τῶν πᾰ́ρδων tôn párdōn
Dative	τῷ πᾰ́ρδῳ tôi párdōi	τοῖν πᾰ́ρδοιν toîn párdoin	τοῖς πᾰ́ρδοις toîs párdois
Accusative	τὸν πᾰ́ρδον tòn párdon	τὼ πᾰ́ρδω tṑ párdō	τοὺς πᾰ́ρδους toùs párdous
Vocative	πᾰ́ρδε párde	πᾰ́ρδω párdō	πᾰ́ρδοι párdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λεόπαρδος (leópardos)

Descendants

• → Latin: pardus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• πάρδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πάρδος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “πάρδος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “πάρδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press