panicum

See also: Panicum

English

Etymology

From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”).

Noun

panicum (plural panicums)

1. Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.
   • 2008 January 18, Steve Bailey, “A Weekend Home That’s Straight Out of a Dream”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And his property might remind someone of the dunes of the East End of Long Island: nine acres of artfully placed native grasses like panicum and schizachyrium and meadow plants like rudbeckia and asters.

Translations

any grass in the genus Panicum

• Portuguese: painço (pt) m

See also

• panicum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• panicum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• panicum at USDA Plants database

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, probably either from pānis (“bread; loaf”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to graze; to protect; to shepherd”)) or pānus (“ear of millet; thread wound on a bobbin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to twist; to weave”)) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.ni.kum/, [ˈpäːnɪkʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ni.kum/, [ˈpäːnikum]

Noun

pānicum n (genitive pānicī); second declension

1. Italian millet, foxtail millet (Setaria italica), panicgrass

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pānicum	pānica
Genitive	pānicī	pānicōrum
Dative	pānicō	pānicīs
Accusative	pānicum	pānica
Ablative	pānicō	pānicīs
Vocative	pānicum	pānica

Synonyms

• pānicium

Descendants

• French: panic
• Italian: panico
• Romanian: părâng, părinc

References

• “panicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “panicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• panicum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.