πανικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Generic use of Πᾱνικός (Pānikós, “pertaining to Pan”), from Πᾱ́ν (Pā́n) +‎ -ικός (-ikós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /paː.ni.kós/ → /pa.niˈkos/ → /pa.niˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /paː.ni.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pa.niˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pa.niˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pa.niˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pa.niˈkos/

Adjective

πᾱνῐκός • (pānikós) m (feminine πᾱνῐκή, neuter πᾱνῐκόν); first/second declension

1. (of fears) panic, groundless

Declension

First and second declension of πᾱνῐκός; πᾱνῐκή; πᾱνῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		πᾱνῐκός pānikós	πᾱνῐκή pānikḗ	πᾱνῐκόν pānikón		πᾱνῐκώ pānikṓ	πᾱνῐκᾱ́ pānikā́	πᾱνῐκώ pānikṓ		πᾱνῐκοί pānikoí	πᾱνῐκαί pānikaí	πᾱνῐκᾰ́ pāniká
Genitive		πᾱνῐκοῦ pānikoû	πᾱνῐκῆς pānikês	πᾱνῐκοῦ pānikoû		πᾱνῐκοῖν pānikoîn	πᾱνῐκαῖν pānikaîn	πᾱνῐκοῖν pānikoîn		πᾱνῐκῶν pānikôn	πᾱνῐκῶν pānikôn	πᾱνῐκῶν pānikôn
Dative		πᾱνῐκῷ pānikôi	πᾱνῐκῇ pānikêi	πᾱνῐκῷ pānikôi		πᾱνῐκοῖν pānikoîn	πᾱνῐκαῖν pānikaîn	πᾱνῐκοῖν pānikoîn		πᾱνῐκοῖς pānikoîs	πᾱνῐκαῖς pānikaîs	πᾱνῐκοῖς pānikoîs
Accusative		πᾱνῐκόν pānikón	πᾱνῐκήν pānikḗn	πᾱνῐκόν pānikón		πᾱνῐκώ pānikṓ	πᾱνῐκᾱ́ pānikā́	πᾱνῐκώ pānikṓ		πᾱνῐκούς pānikoús	πᾱνῐκᾱ́ς pānikā́s	πᾱνῐκᾰ́ pāniká
Vocative		πᾱνῐκέ pāniké	πᾱνῐκή pānikḗ	πᾱνῐκόν pānikón		πᾱνῐκώ pānikṓ	πᾱνῐκᾱ́ pānikā́	πᾱνῐκώ pānikṓ		πᾱνῐκοί pānikoí	πᾱνῐκαί pānikaí	πᾱνῐκᾰ́ pāniká
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		πᾱνῐκῶς pānikôs				πᾱνῐκώτερος pānikṓteros				πᾱνῐκώτᾰτος pānikṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: πανικός (panikós)
• Latin: pānicus
  • → Catalan: pànic (learned)
  • → Czech: panika
  • → Danish: panik
  • → Dutch: paniek, panisch
  • → English: panic
  • → French: panique (learned)
    • → Russian: па́ника (pánika)
      • → Georgian: პანიკა (ṗaniḳa)
    • → Turkish: panik
  • → German: Panik, panisch
  • → Hungarian: pánik
  • → Italian: panico (learned)
  • → Latvian: panika
  • → Lithuanian: panika
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: panikk
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: panikk
  • → Polish: panika
  • → Portuguese: pânico (learned)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pànika
  • → Spanish: pánico (learned)
  • → Swedish: panik
    • → Finnish: paniikki
• → Bulgarian: па́ника (pánika)
• → Macedonian: паника (panika)
• → Romanian: panică

Further reading

• πανικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πανικός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “πανικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press