panaca

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panaca f (genitive panacae); first declension

1. A kind of drinking vessel

First-declension noun.

• “panaca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• panaca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “panaca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Unknown.

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧na‧ca

panaca m or f (plural panacas)

1. (Brazil, informal, derogatory) stupid, idiotic

   Synonyms: idiota, tolo, imbecil, estúpido

panaca m or f (plural panacas)

1. (Brazil, informal, derogatory) a person with those characteristics; an idiot, a fool

• “panaca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “panaca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

panaca f (plural panacas)

1. panaka