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English

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Etymology

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Clipping of pandemic + -o.

Noun

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pando

  1. (Australia, UK, slang) A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).
    • [2020 August 20, David Shariatmadari, “Pando, Miss Rona and Covid Toe: how the language of a disease develops – shaped by fear and prejudice”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-28:
      We have crunched Covid-19 to Covid; the specific coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is mostly now "coronavirus", and has been joined by "the pandemic" (for some in Australia, the "pando"), "'rona" and even "miss Rona".]
    • 2021 September 30, u/ThrustersOnFull, “what are some of the professions that are slowly dying ?”, in Reddit[2], r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 2024-02-19:
      Had a radio job before the pando, now I don't. I went to school for it too. Now I gotta change gears and don't know howwwww
    • 2023 May 9, u/Magnus_Veritas, “CTA Hoses Train Cars Down With Fresh Piss”, in Reddit[3], r/chicago, archived from the original on 2023-05-09:
      Pre-pando things were really going well. It's such a shame
    • 2023 December 4, u/TimothyOilypants, “Out in the wild”, in Reddit[4], archived from the original on 19 February 2024:
      I really hope the next pando is more effective... ¶ I feel like COVID didn't come through on its promise.

Esperanto

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Pando.

Etymology

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From French panda, Russian па́нда (pánda).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpando]
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  • Rhymes: -ando
  • Hyphenation: pan‧do

Noun

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pando (accusative singular pandon, plural pandoj, accusative plural pandojn)

  1. panda
    Hyponyms: pandidino (female panda cub), pandido (panda cub), pandino (she-panda), virpando (male panda)
    Holonym: pandaro (pack of pandas)

Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin pandus.

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Adjective

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pando (feminine panda, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandas)

  1. concave; caved in
    Synonym: afundido

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (to spread out). Cognate with pateō, Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon, leaf).

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Verb

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pandō (present infinitive pandere, perfect active pandī, supine passum); third conjugation

  1. (transitive) to spread or open (out), extend
    Synonyms: extendō, distendō, porrigō, prōlongō, prōtrahō, trahō, prōferō, explicō
  2. (transitive) to unfold or expand
  3. (transitive) to spread out to dry
  4. (transitive) to expose, narrate
    Synonyms: referō, ferō, prōdō, trādō, dicitur
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  • English: Pando

Etymology 2

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From pandus (turned) +‎ (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

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pandō (present infinitive pandāre, perfect active pandāvī, supine pandātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to bend, curve anything
  2. (intransitive) to bend (oneself)
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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pandō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pandus

References

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  • pando1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pando2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pando”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pando in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • pando in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to set the sails: vela facere, pandere

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin pandus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpando/ [ˈpãn̪.d̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ando
  • Syllabification: pan‧do

Adjective

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pando (feminine panda, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandas)

  1. crooked, bent
  2. shallow (water)
  3. sluggish, slow (moving slowly)
  4. (El Salvador) unlucky (having bad luck)

Derived terms

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Noun

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pando m (plural pandos)

  1. plain (open flat land between mountains)
    Synonym: llano

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