pantex

Latin

Etymology

A colloquial word of uncertain formation,[1] but probably from or related to panus.

Pronunciation

Noun

pantex m (genitive panticis); third declension

  1. (usually in the plural) belly, paunch, guts

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pantex panticēs
genitive panticis panticum
dative panticī panticibus
accusative panticem panticēs
ablative pantice panticibus
vocative pantex panticēs

Descendants

  • Eastern Romance
    • Aromanian: pãntic, pãnticã
    • Megleno-Romanian: pǫntiți
    • Romanian: pântece
  • Gallo-Italic
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Corsican: panza
    • Italian: pancia
    • Neapolitan: panza (possibly via Spanish panza or another language)
      Tarantino: panze
    • Sassarese: panza
    • Sicilian: panza (probably via Spanish panza or Occitan pança)
    • ⇒ Dalmatian: panzaita
    • ⇒ Neapolitan: pántici
    • →⇒ English: labonza (probably via Neapolitan or Sicilian la panza)
  • Oïl
  • Old Occitan:
  • Rhaeto-Romance
  • Venetan: pansa, pança
    • → Albanian: plëndës (blended with Old Venetan *splenza (“spleen”))
  • West Iberian

References

  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “pantex, -icis”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, pages 479-80

Further reading

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