panter

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæntə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)

From pant +‎ -er.

panter (plural panters)

1. One who pants.
   • c. 1700, William Congreve, On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing:

     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, […]

From Middle English panter (“noose for fowl”), from Old French pantiere, from Latin panthēra (“entire catch”), from Ancient Greek πανθήρα (panthḗra). Cognate with and closely related to pantle.

panter (plural panters)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A net; a noose.

• painter

From Middle English panter (“pantler”), paneter, from Old French panetier.

panter (plural panters)

1. (obsolete) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
   • a. 1536, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue:

     as though all the bread be committed unto the panter

panter (plural panters)

1. Obsolete form of panther.

• “panter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “panter”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, parent, trepan

• panther

• IPA^(key): [ˈpantɛr]

panter m anim (relational adjective panteří)

1. panther

• levhart
• pardál

panter m inan

1. Panther tank (World War II German tank)

• “panter”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “panter”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “panter”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Latin panthera

panter c (singular definite panteren, plural indefinite pantere)

1. panther

• panther (before 1934)

From Middle Dutch pantera, from Latin panthera, possibly via Middle French panthère.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑn.tər/

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• Hyphenation: pan‧ter

panter m (plural panters, diminutive pantertje n)

1. panther, leopard (Panthera pardus)

   Synonyms: luipaard, pardel

• parten
• praten

From Old French pantere, from Latin panthera, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr).

• pantere, panther

• IPA^(key): /ˈpantɛːr(ə)/, /ˈpantər(ə)/

panter (plural panteres or panteren)

2. A panther (leopard or any wild cat)
3. (rare, alchemy) An alchemical solution.

• English: panther

• “pantē̆r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 July 2018.

Borrowed from Old French panetier, penetier.

• pantre, paniter, paneter, pantere, panytere

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan(ə)teːr/, /ˈpan(ə)tər/

panter (plural panters)

2. A pantler (manager of the pantry and food)

• English: panter

• “panetē̆r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 July 2018.

Borrowed from Old French pantiere, from Latin panthēra (“entire catch”), from Ancient Greek πανθήρα (panthḗra).

• paunter, pantere, pantire, pantyr, panteere

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanteːr(ə)/, /ˈpantər(ə)/

panter (plural panters)

2. A noose for trapping fowl.
   • c. 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women/Prologe

     The smalle fowles, of the season fain,
     That from the panter and the net ben scaped,
     Upon the fowler, that them made a-whaped
     In winter, and destroyed had their brood.

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3. (figurative) That which ensnares; a lure.

• English: panter (obsolete)
• English: pantle (obsolete, regional)

• “pauntē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin panthera, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr).

panter m (definite singular panteren, indefinite plural pantere or pantre or pantrer, definite plural panterne or pantrene)

1. a panther (black leopard)

panter m (definite singular panteren, indefinite plural panterar, definite plural panterane)

1. a panther (black leopard)

Borrowed from Middle Low German pant, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Latin pannus (“piece of cloth”).

panter

1. deposit, pawn (item given as security)

• Swedish: pant

• pant in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.tɛr/
• Rhymes: -antɛr
• Syllabification: pan‧ter

panter f

1. genitive plural of pantera

From Latin panthera

panter c

1. a panther ((black) leopard)

   Synonym: leopard

   svart panter

   black panther

2. indefinite plural of pant

• panter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• panter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• panter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• parten

From French panthère.

panter (definite accusative panteri, plural panterler)

1. panther

   Synonyms: pars, pelenk

• “panter”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu