different between procurer vs pandar

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman procurour, Old French procureor. Equivalent to procure +? -er.

Noun

procurer (plural procurers)

1. A person who procures or obtains things, especially one who procures customers for prostitutes.

Synonyms

• pander
• panderer

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French procurer, from Late Latin pr?c?r?re, present active infinitive of pr?c?r? (“I manage, administer”), from Latin pr? (“on behalf of”) with c?r? (“I care for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.ky.?e/

Verb

procurer

1. (transitive) to get, obtain (for someone)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “procurer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

pr?c?rer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pr?c?r?

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?c?r?.

Verb

procurer

1. to procure (to get; to obtain)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• ? English: procure
• French: procurer

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (procurer, supplement)
• procurer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Alternative forms

• pander

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pænd?/

Noun

pandar (plural pandars)

1. (obsolete) A person who furthers the illicit love affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male.

Verb

pandar (third-person singular simple present pandars, present participle pandaring, simple past and past participle pandared)

1. To pander (assist in the gratification of).
   • 1795, Paul Dunvan, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston, page 397,

     That degenerate a??embly even pandared to the libidinous epicuri?m of this many-wived tyrant; and outraged, at his command, the rights of decorum, of ju?tice, and of nature.

   • 1827, Law of Libel—State of the Press, The Quarterly Review, Volume 35, London, page 608,

     […] not to be confounded by all the efforts of interested writers, who would abuse the valuable immunities of the press to the wretched purposes of venal detraction, and a lucrative pandaring to the morbid tastes of the public.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 2, 1858, page 456,

     He had, during many years, earned his daily bread by pandaring to the vicious taste of the pit, and by grossly flattering rich and noble patrons.

See also

• demagogism

Anagrams

• PRADAN

Latin

Verb

pandar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of pand?