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pant

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: pănt, IPA(key): /pænt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

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From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.

Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

Noun

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pant (plural pants)

  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
  2. (figurative) Eager longing.
    • 1995, John C. Leggett, Suzanne Malm, The Eighteen Stages of Love, page 9:
      Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.
  3. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
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Verb

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pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
    • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound:
      There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
    • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
      Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed
  2. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  4. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  5. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
    • 1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 750:
      [T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees.
  6. (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
  7. (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
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Etymology 2

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From pants.

Noun

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pant (plural pants)

  1. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (attributive) Of or relating to pants.
    pant leg
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Etymology 3

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Unknown

Noun

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pant (plural pants)

  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

References

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  • OED 2nd edition

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Anagrams

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Czech

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Etymology

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From German Band (“band, belt”).

Noun

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pant m inan

  1. hinge

Declension

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Declension of pant (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative pant panty
genitive pantu pantů
dative pantu pantům
accusative pant panty
vocative pante panty
locative pantě, pantu pantech
instrumental pantem panty

Danish

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Noun

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pant

  1. a deposit (on packaging such as bottles and cans)

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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Childish alteration of panta (“to reserve”).

Verb

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pant (defective verb)

  1. (colloquial, childish) I call dibs! (used when claiming a right to be the first or only one to do something)
    Pant velja tónlistina. ― I call dibs on choosing the music.
    Ég pant vera R2-D2, þú mátt vera C3PO. ― I call dibs on being R2-D2, you can be C3PO.

Middle English

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Verb

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pant

  1. Alternative form of panten

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr.

Noun

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pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta or pantene)

  1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
  2. a mortgage
  3. security (on a loan)
  4. a forfeit (in a game)
  5. a pledge
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Noun

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pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural panter, definite plural pantene)

  1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr.

Noun

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pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta)

  1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
  2. a mortgage
  3. security (on a loan)
  4. a forfeit (in a game)
  5. a pledge
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Noun

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pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural pantar, definite plural pantane)

  1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From German Band via Austrian German.

Noun

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pȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling па̏нт)

  1. hinge

Declension

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Declension of pant
singular plural
nominative pȁnt panti
genitive panta panta
dative pantu pantima
accusative pant pante
vocative pantu panti
locative pante pantima
instrumental pantom pantima

Swedish

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A bottle with 2 kr container deposit.

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Swedish panter (“deposit”). From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr. According to SO attested since the early half of the 14th century.

Noun

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pant c

  1. pledge, pawn, item deposited at a pawnshop or otherwise given as a security
  2. container deposit, an addition to the price of an article returned when its container is returned to a collection point for re-use
  3. (by extension) item that has container deposit
    • 2022 September 26, Rikard Ljungqvist, “Kastade pant från femte våningen mot värdens personal – därför slipper hon vräkning”, in Hem & Hyra‎[1]:
      Kastade pant från femte våningen mot värdens personal
      Threw bottles and cans from the fifth floor at the lessor's staff

Declension

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Declension of pant
nominative genitive
singular indefinite pant pants
definite panten pantens
plural indefinite panter panters
definite panterna panternas

Derived terms

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(pledge, pawn):

(container deposit):

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Welsh

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *kʷantyos "flat hill", compare Pictish ᚘᚐᚅᚈ (pant, “hollow”).

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Noun

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pant m (plural pantiau)

  1. hollow, depression, small valley, dingle, dell

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of pant
radical soft nasal aspirate
pant bant mhant phant

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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