panicium

Latin

Etymology

From pānicum, from pānus (“ear of millet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːˈni.ki.um/, [päːˈnɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈni.t͡ʃi.um/, [päˈniːt͡ʃium]

Noun

pānicium n (genitive pāniciī or pānicī); second declension

1. anything baked; baked goods, bread, cakes
2. foxtail millet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pānicium	pānicia
Genitive	pāniciī pānicī1	pāniciōrum
Dative	pāniciō	pāniciīs
Accusative	pānicium	pānicia
Ablative	pāniciō	pāniciīs
Vocative	pānicium	pānicia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (foxtail millet): pānicum

Related terms

• pānāriolum
• pānārium
• pānārius
• pānicellus
• pāniceus
• pānicoctārius
• pānifex
• pānifica
• pānificium
• pānis
• pānōsus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: paniccia
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: panìss
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: panís
  • Occitan: panís
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: paínzo
  • Portuguese: painço
  • Spanish: panizo

References

• “panicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• panicium 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)
• panicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.