πάμπαν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Reduplication of πᾶν (pân), neuter nominative singular (here used adverbially) of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every, whole”), with labial assimilation. This type of iterative compound is vanishingly rare in Ancient Greek, with only a handful furthermore known from Mycenaean Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pám.pan/ → /ˈpam.pan/ → /ˈpam.ban/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pám.pan/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpam.pan/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpam.pan/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpam.pan/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpam.ban/

Adverb

πάμπαν • (pámpan)

1. wholly, altogether, quite

Further reading

• “πάμπαν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press