Pandora
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Pandora f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Entomophthoraceae – certain fungi not placed within a phylum.
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- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Eomycota - subkingdom; Zygomycota - phylum; Entomophthoromycotina - subphylum; Entomophthorales - order; Entomophthoraceae - family
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Pandora neoaphidis - type species
References edit
- Pandora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Pandora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Entomophthoraceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρᾱ (Pandṓrā, “all gifts”).
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Pandora
- (Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.
- (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.
- (astronomy) 55 Pandora, a main belt asteroid.
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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora anim
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indefinite | |
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absolutive | Pandora |
ergative | Pandorak |
dative | Pandorari |
genitive | Pandoraren |
comitative | Pandorarekin |
causative | Pandorarengatik |
benefactive | Pandorarentzat |
instrumental | Pandoraz |
inessive | Pandorarengan |
locative | — |
allative | Pandorarengana |
terminative | Pandorarenganaino |
directive | Pandorarenganantz |
destinative | Pandorarenganako |
ablative | Pandorarengandik |
partitive | Pandorarik |
prolative | Pandoratzat |
Further reading edit
- “82.- Grezia eta Erromako pertsonaia mitologikoak [Greek and Roman mythological characters]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 1998
Catalan edit
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Pandora
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /panˈdoː.ra/, [pän̪ˈd̪oːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /panˈdo.ra/, [pän̪ˈd̪ɔːrä]
Proper noun edit
Pandōra f sg (genitive Pandōrae); first declension
- Pandora
- (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia, 36, 19 — C. Plini Secundi naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Ianus. Vol. V. Libb. XXXIII–XXXVII. Lipsia, 1878, p. 108:
- in basi autem quod caelatum est Pandoras genesin appellavit, di sunt nascenti adstantes XX numero.
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- The Natural History of Pliny. Translated, with copious notes and illustrations by the late John Bostock and H. T. Riley. Vol. VI. With general index. London, 1857, p. 311:
- To the story chased upon the pedestal of the statue the name of the "Birth of Pandora"29 has been given; and the figures of new-born30 gods to be seen upon it are no less than twenty in number.
29 "Pandoras Genesis."
30 Sillig is of opinion that this passage is corrupt, and is inclined to think, with Panofka, that the reading should be "nascenti adstantes," – gods "standing by the new-born" Pandora
- (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia, 36, 19 — C. Plini Secundi naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Ianus. Vol. V. Libb. XXXIII–XXXVII. Lipsia, 1878, p. 108:
Declension edit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Pandōra |
Genitive | Pandōrae |
Dative | Pandōrae |
Accusative | Pandōram |
Ablative | Pandōrā |
Vocative | Pandōra |
References edit
- “Pandora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pandora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Lithuanian edit
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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- Пандора (Pandora) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandóra f (Cyrillic spelling Пандо́ра)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora f
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Further reading edit
- “Pandora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora c (genitive Pandoras)
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
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Pandora