Panda

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Panda (plural Pandas)

1. A South Asian surname.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpanda]

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Panda m (strong, genitive Pandas, plural Pandas)

1. panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

   Synonym: Pandabär

• “Panda” in Duden online

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpan.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpan̪.d̪a]

From pandō.

Panda m sg (genitive Pandae); first declension

1. a river of Scythia mentioned by Tacitus

First-declension noun, singular only.

From Proto-Italic *Patnā, from *patnō (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *pt-ne-h₂-ti, a nasal-infix present made from *peth₂-.

Panda f sg (genitive Pandae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) a Roman goddess, whom Festus identifies as the "goddess of the rustics" and Varro relates as the goddess who provides "bread" and therefore "food"; possibly an epithet of Juno

   Synonym: Empanda

First-declension noun, singular only.

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