panicum

See also: Panicum

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin pānicumder.

Translingual Panicumbor.

English panicum

From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”).

Noun

panicum (plural panicums)

1. Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.
   • 2008 January 18, Steve Bailey, “A Weekend Home That’s Straight Out of a Dream”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     And his property might remind someone of the dunes of the East End of Long Island: nine acres of artfully placed native grasses like panicum and schizachyrium and meadow plants like rudbeckia and asters.

Translations

any grass in the genus Panicum

• Polish: proso (pl) n
• Portuguese: painço (pt) m

See also

• panicum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• panicum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• panicum at USDA Plants database

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, probably either from pānis (“bread; loaf”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to graze; to protect; to shepherd”)) or pānus (“ear of millet; thread wound on a bobbin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to twist; to weave”)) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.nɪ.kũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ni.kum]

Noun

pānicum n (genitive pānicī); second declension

1. Italian millet, foxtail millet (Setaria italica), panicgrass

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pānicum	pānica
genitive	pānicī	pānicōrum
dative	pānicō	pānicīs
accusative	pānicum	pānica
ablative	pānicō	pānicīs
vocative	pānicum	pānica

Synonyms

• pānicium

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Romanian: părâng, părinc
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: panico

Borrowings:

• → French: panic
• → Middle English: panik, panyk
  • English: panic
• → Translingual: Panicum
  • → English: panicum

References

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