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

Declension

Declension of pardus (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pardus	pardusinn	pardusar	pardusarnir
accusative	pardus	pardusinn	pardusa	pardusana
dative	pardus, pardusi	pardusnum	pardusum	pardusunum
genitive	parduss	pardussins	pardusa	pardusanna

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.

	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.