different between panter vs pander

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pænt?(?)/

Etymology 1

pant +? -er

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. One who pants.
   • c. 1700, William Congreve, On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing

     Swiftly the gentle Charmer flies, / And to the tender Grief soft Air applies, / Which, warbling Mystic sounds, / Cements the bleeding Panter's Wounds.

   • 1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (volume 60, page 492)

     Reputation—a mere barren reputation, that brings nothing with it, save a post obit bond on posterity—has lost its ancient value: and the panters after posthumous reputation are now closely confined to a few wrongheaded enthusiasts, […]

Etymology 2

From Middle English panter (“noose for fowl”), from Old French pantiere, from Latin panth?ra (“entire catch”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (panth?ra).

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. (obsolete) A net; a noose.

Etymology 3

From Middle English panter (“pantler”), paneter, from Old French panetier.

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tyndale to this entry?)

Etymology 4

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. Obsolete form of panther.

Anagrams

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, parent, trepan

Czech

Alternative forms

• panther

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pant?r]

Noun

panter m

1. panther

Derived terms

• pante?í

See also

• levhart
• pardál

Further reading

• panter in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• panter in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

panter c (singular definite panteren, plural indefinite pantere)

1. Panther.

Inflection

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1934) panther

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pan?ter

Noun

panter m (plural panters, diminutive pantertje n)

1. panther, leopard, Panthera pardus

   Synonyms: luipaard, pardel

Derived terms

• sneeuwpanter

Anagrams

• parten
• praten

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French pantere, from Latin panthera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (pánth?r).

Alternative forms

• pantere, panther

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pant??r(?)/, /?pant?r(?)/

Noun

panter (plural panteres or panteren)

2. A panther (leopard or any wild cat)
3. (rare, alchemy) An alchemical solution.

Descendants

• English: panther

References

• “pant??r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French panetier, penetier.

Alternative forms

• pantre, paniter, paneter, pantere, panytere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pan(?)te?r/, /?pan(?)t?r/

Noun

panter (plural panters)

2. A pantler (manager of the pantry and food)

Descendants

• English: panter

References

• “panet??r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old French pantiere, from Latin panth?ra (“entire catch”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (panth?ra).

Alternative forms

• paunter, pantere, pantire, pantyr, panteere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pante?r(?)/, /?pant?r(?)/

Noun

panter (plural panters)

2. A noose for trapping fowl.
   • c. 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women/Prologe

     The smalle fowles, of the season fain,

     That from the panter and the net ben scaped,

     Upon the fowler, that them made a-whaped

     In winter, and destroyed had their brood.

3. (figuratively) That which ensnares; a lure.

Descendants

• English: panter (obsolete)

References

• “paunt??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

panter m (definite singular panteren, indefinite plural pantere or pantre or pantrer, definite plural panterne or pantrene)

1. a panther (black leopard)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

panter m (definite singular panteren, indefinite plural panterar, definite plural panterane)

1. a panther (black leopard)

Swedish

Noun

panter c

1. a panther
2. indefinite plural of pant

Declension

Anagrams

• parten

Turkish

Etymology

From French panthère.

Noun

panter (definite accusative panteri, plural panterler)

1. panther

   Synonyms: pars, pelenk

Declension

References

• panter in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

English

Alternative forms

• pandar

Etymology

From Middle English pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde) (see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient Greek ???????? (Pándaros).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pænd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pænd?/
• (non-rhotic accents) Homophone: panda

Noun

pander (plural panders)

1. A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.

   Synonyms: panderer; see also Thesaurus:pimp

   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:

     It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.

2. An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
3. An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
4. (by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.

Derived terms

• panderly
• pandersome

Translations

Verb

pander (third-person singular simple present panders, present participle pandering, simple past and past participle pandered)

1. (intransitive) To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification.
2. (intransitive) To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a pander for (somebody).

Synonyms

• (to pimp): prostitute, hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out

Derived terms

• panderer

See also

• demagogism

Translations

Anagrams

• repand

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pan?/, [?p?an?]

Noun

pander c

1. indefinite plural of pande

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pan.der/, [?pän?d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pan.der/, [?p?n?d??r]

Verb

pander

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pand?