Pandora

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Pandora f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Entomophthoraceae – certain fungi not placed within a phylum.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Fungi – kingdom; Eomycota – subkingdom; Zygomycota – phylum; Entomophthoromycotina – subphylum; Entomophthorales – order; Entomophthoraceae – family

• (genus): Pandora neoaphidis – type species

• Pandora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pandora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Entomophthoraceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρᾱ (Pandṓrā, “all gifts”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌpænˈdɔɹə/

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.
2. (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.
3. (astronomy) 55 Pandora, a main belt asteroid.

• Pandora's box

• paradon

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

• IPA^(key): /pandoɾa/ [pãn̪.d̪o.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -oɾa, -a
• Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra

Pandora anim

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

• “82.- Grezia eta Erromako pertsonaia mitologikoak [Greek and Roman mythological characters]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 1998

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pənˈdo.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [panˈdo.ɾa]

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑndorɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝ndo̞rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑndorɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Pan‧do‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): Pan‧do‧ra

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

• padrona, parando, rapando

Pandora

1. Rōmaji transcription of パンドラ

From Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [panˈdoː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pan̪ˈd̪ɔː.ra]

Pandōra f sg (genitive Pandōrae); first declension

1. Pandora
   • (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia, 36, 19 — C. Plini Secundi naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Ianus. Vol. V. Libb. XXXIII–XXXVII. Lipsia, 1878, p. 108:

     in basi autem quod caelatum est Pandoras genesin appellavit, di sunt nascenti adstantes XX numero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     • The Natural History of Pliny. Translated, with copious notes and illustrations by the late John Bostock and H. T. Riley. Vol. VI. With general index. London, 1857, p. 311:

       To the story chased upon the pedestal of the statue the name of the "Birth of Pandora"²⁹ has been given; and the figures of new-born³⁰ gods to be seen upon it are no less than twenty in number.

     
     ²⁹ "Pandoras Genesis."
     ³⁰ Sillig is of opinion that this passage is corrupt, and is inclined to think, with Panofka, that the reading should be "nascenti adstantes," – gods "standing by the new-born" Pandora

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Pandora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pandora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora, the world's first woman

• Pandoros skrynia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

• IPA^(key): /panˈdɔ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: Pan‧do‧ra

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

• Pandora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Pandora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora (woman who released evil into the world)

• caixa de Pandora

• Пандора (Pandora) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

• IPA^(key): /panˈdo.ra/
• Rhymes: -ora
• Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

• IPA^(key): /pandǒːra/
• Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra

Pandóra f (Cyrillic spelling Пандо́ра)

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

• IPA^(key): /panˈdoɾa/ [pãn̪ˈd̪o.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: Pan‧do‧ra

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

• “Pandora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

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Pandora c (genitive Pandoras)

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

• Pandoras ask

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora