panicum
Appearance
See also: Panicum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”).
Noun
[edit]panicum (plural panicums)
- Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.
- 2008 January 18, Steve Bailey, “A Weekend Home That’s Straight Out of a Dream”, in New York Times[1]:
- And his property might remind someone of the dunes of the East End of Long Island: nine acres of artfully placed native grasses like panicum and schizachyrium and meadow plants like rudbeckia and asters.
Translations
[edit]See also
[edit]- panicum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- panicum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- panicum at USDA Plants database
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain, probably either from pānis (“bread; loaf”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to graze; to protect; to shepherd”)) or pānus (“ear of millet; thread wound on a bobbin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to twist; to weave”)) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpaː.ni.kum/, [ˈpäːnɪkʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ni.kum/, [ˈpäːnikum]
Noun
[edit]pānicum n (genitive pānicī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | pānicum | pānica |
genitive | pānicī | pānicōrum |
dative | pānicō | pānicīs |
accusative | pānicum | pānica |
ablative | pānicō | pānicīs |
vocative | pānicum | pānica |
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “panicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “panicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- panicum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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