Πάν

See also: παν, πᾶν, παν-, πάν-, and Appendix:Variations of "pan"

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The deity has been argued to be of Indo-European origin; see Sanskrit पूषन् (pūṣan, “Pushan, literally ‘nourisher’”), a Vedic god associated with guarding and multiplying cattle, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂-us-ōn from *peh₂-.

In the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, it is claimed that Πάν (Pán) derives from πᾶν (pân), neuter nominative singular of πᾶς (pâs, “every”) because “he delighted all”, but the stems differ (cf. gen. πάντος vs. Πάνος).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pǎːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pan/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pan/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pan/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pan/

Proper noun

Πᾱ́ν • (Pā́n) m (genitive Πᾱνός); third declension

(Greek mythology) Pan, the Greek god of shepherds and nature

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Πᾱ́ν; τοῦ Πᾱνός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πᾱ́ν ho Pā́n
Genitive	τοῦ Πᾱνός toû Pānós
Dative	τῷ Πᾱνῐ́ tōî Pānĭ́
Accusative	τὸν Πᾶνᾰ tòn Până
Vocative	Πᾱ́ν Pā́n
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Πάνας (Pánas)
Latin: Pan
Polish: Pan
Russian: Пан (Pan)
Translingual: Pan

References

“Πάν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Πάν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Πάν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“Πάν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020