panter
See also: Panter
English
Noun
panter (plural panters)
- One who pants.
- Congreve
- 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, […]
- Congreve
Etymology 2
See painter (“a rope”).
Noun
panter (plural panters)
Etymology 3
From Middle English panter, paneter, from Old French panetier.
Noun
panter (plural panters)
Noun
panter (plural panters)
- Obsolete form of panther.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for panter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Czech
Alternative forms
Danish
Dutch
Alternative forms
- (before 1934) panther
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑn.tər/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pan‧ter
Derived terms
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French pantere, from Latin panthera, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpantɛːr(ə)/, /ˈpantər(ə)/
Noun
Descendants
- English: panther
References
- “pantē̆r(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French panetier, penetier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpan(ə)tɛːr/, /ˈpan(ə)tər/
Descendants
- English: panter
References
- “panetē̆r(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
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