pardus

Learned borrowing from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰartʏs/
• Rhymes: -artʏs

pardus m (genitive singular parduss, nominative plural pardusar)

1. panther, leopard

• pardusdýr

From Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), probably ultimately an Indo-Iranian borrowing related to Persian پلنگ (“panther”) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.d̪us]

pardus m (genitive pardī); second declension

1. pard: a male leopard
2. (zoology) other mottled or spotted animals
3. brown

Second-declension noun.

• Asturian: pardu
• Galician: pardo
• Italian: pardo
• Portuguese: pardo
• Spanish: pardo
• → Middle English: parde
  • English: pard
• → Hungarian: párduc

• panthera
• parda

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