Pan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pan"

Translingual

Etymology

1816, in Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, by Lorenz Oken. From Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

Proper noun

Pan m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae – chimpanzees, native to central Africa.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Primates - order; Haplorrhini - suborder; Simiiformes - infraorder; Catarrhini - parvorder; Hominoidea - superfamily; Hominidae - family; Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Panina - subtribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Pan troglodytes - type species; Pan paniscus - other species

References

• Chimpanzee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pan on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Illustration of god Pan.

Saturnian moon Pan, from two angles.

Etymology 1

From Middle English Pan, from Latin Pān, form Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

Proper noun

Pan

1. (Greek mythology) Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.
2. (astronomy) An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• pan-
• Pandean
• pandemonium
• panic
• pan-pipes

Translations

Greek god of nature

• Armenian: Պան (hy) (Pan)
• Catalan: Pan m
• Czech: Pan (cs) m
• Esperanto: Pajno
• Finnish: Pan (fi)
• French: Pan (fr) m
• Galician: Pan (gl) m
• Georgian: პანი (ṗani)
• Greek: Πάνας (el) m (Pánas)

  Ancient: Πάν m (Pán)

• Hungarian: Pán
• Icelandic: Pan
• Indonesian: Pan (id)
• Italian: Pan (it) m
• Japanese: パン (ja) (Pan)
• Macedonian: Пан m (Pan)
• Marathi: पॅन m (pĕn)
• Occitan: Pan (oc) m
• Polish: Pan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Pã (pt) m
• Russian: Пан (ru) m (Pan)
• Spanish: Pan (es) m
• Turkish: Pan

moon of the planet Saturn

• Galician: Pan (gl)
• Greek: Πάνας (el) m (Pánas)
• Japanese: パン (ja) (Pan)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Pan (plural Pans)

1. A surname.

Noun

Pan (plural Pans)

1. Ellipsis of Peter Pan.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Pan

1. A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Proper noun

the Pan

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The workhouse in St Pancras, London.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• -nap, ANP, NAP, NPA, PNA, nap

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpan]

Proper noun

Pan m

1. (Greek mythology) Pan

Related terms

• pànic

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpan]
• Homophone: pan

Proper noun

Pan m anim

1. Pan

Declension

Declension of Pan (sg-only hard masculine animate)

	singular
nominative	Pan
genitive	Pana
dative	Panovi, Panu
accusative	Pana
vocative	Pane
locative	Panovi, Panu
instrumental	Panem

Further reading

• Pan in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Pan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: Pàn

Proper noun

Pan m

1. (Greek mythology) Pan

Anagrams

• NAP

Japanese

Romanization

Pan

1. Rōmaji transcription of パン

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πᾱ́ν (Pā́n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paːn/, [päːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pan/, [pän]

Proper noun

Pān m sg (genitive Pānos); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Pan

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Pān
Genitive	Pānos
Dative	Pānī
Accusative	Pāna
Ablative	Pāne
Vocative	Pān

Descendants

• → English: Pan

References

• “Pan”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German panna, northern variant of phanna, akin to German Pfanne, Dutch pan, English pan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːn/

Noun

Pan f (plural Panen)

1. pan

   Hee bréit d'Fleesch an der Pan.

   He is frying the meat in a pan.

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin Pan, from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːn/, /pan/

Proper noun

Pan

1. Pan (Greek god)

Descendants

• English: Pan

References

• “Pān, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-04.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Pan
• Homophones: pan, PAN, pan-

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin Pan, from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

Proper noun

Pan m pers

1. (Greek mythology) Pan (Greek god of nature)

Declension

Declension of Pan

	singular
nominative	Pan
genitive	Pana
dative	Panowi
accusative	Pana
instrumental	Panem
locative	Panie
vocative	Panie

Proper noun

Pan m animal

1. (astronomy) Pan (moon of Saturn)

Declension

Declension of Pan

	singular
nominative	Pan
genitive	Pana
dative	Panowi
accusative	Pana
instrumental	Panem
locative	Panie
vocative	Panie

Etymology 2

From pan.

Noun

Pan m pers (female equivalent Pani)

1. Lord, Sir (title)

Declension

Declension of Pan

	singular	plural
nominative	Pan	Panowie
genitive	Pana	Panów
dative	Panu	Panom
accusative	Pana	Panów
instrumental	Panem	Panami
locative	Panie	Panach
vocative	Panie	Panowie

Proper noun

Pan m pers

1. Lord (God)
2. (biblical, Christianity, theology) Lord (Jesus)

Declension

Declension of Pan

	singular
nominative	Pan
genitive	Pana
dative	Panu
accusative	Pana
instrumental	Panem
locative	Panie
vocative	Panie

Derived terms

adjective

• Pański

 

Further reading

• Pan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Pan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Pan m

1. Alternative spelling of Pã

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 潘 (Pān). Doublet of Pua and Poon.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpan/ [ˈpan]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Pan

Proper noun

Pan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Mandarin