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pant

See also: pánt, Pant, and pant-

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Etymology 1

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    From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.

    Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

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    pant (plural pants)

    1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
    2. (figurative) Eager longing.
      • 1995, John C. Leggett, Suzanne Malm, The Eighteen Stages of Love, page 9:
        Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.
    3. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
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    Verb

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    pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)

    1. (ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
      • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
        Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
      • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound:
        There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
      • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
        Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed
    2. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
    3. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
    4. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
    5. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
      • 1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 750:
        [T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees.
    6. (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
    7. (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
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    Etymology 2

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-
    Proto-Indo-European *-énts
    Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts?
    Proto-Hellenic *pánts
    Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)
    Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos)
    Proto-Indo-European *-eti
    Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
    Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
    Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
    Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
    Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
    Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
    Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
    Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
    Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō)
    Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
    Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)
    Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn)
    Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)der.
    Italian Pantalonebor.
    French pantalonbor.
    English pantaloon
    English pantaloons
    English pantsbf.
    English pant

      Back-formation from pants.

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      pant (plural pants)

      1. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
        To commemorate our 50th anniversary we've rolled out a new pant with our signature blue and white seams.
      2. (attributive) Of or relating to pants.
        pant leg
      3. (nonstandard, colloquial) A leg on a pair of trousers.
        • 2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills‎[1], XLibrisUS, page 246:
          he rolled up one of the black trouser pants on his left leg and searched for a vein.
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      Etymology 3

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      Unknown.

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      pant (plural pants)

      1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

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      • OED 2nd edition

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      Czech

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      Etymology

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        Borrowed from German Band (“band, belt”).

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        Noun

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        pant m inan

        1. hinge
          Synonym: závěs
          Coordinate term: stěžej

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        Declension of pant (hard masculine inanimate)
        singular plural
        nominative pant panty
        genitive pantu pantů
        dative pantu pantům
        accusative pant panty
        vocative pante panty
        locative pantě, pantu pantech
        instrumental pantem panty

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        Danish

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        Etymology

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        From Middle Low German pant.

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        pant n (singular definite pantet or panten, plural indefinite panter)

        1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
        2. mortgage
        3. security (on a loan)
        4. deposit (on packaging such as bottles and cans)

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        Declension of pant
        neuter
        gender         		singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative pant pantet
        panten         		panter panterne
        genitive pants pantets
        pantens         		panters panternes
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        Estonian

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from Middle Low German pant. Compare Finnish pantti, Ingrian pantti.

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        pant (genitive pandi, partitive panti)

        1. pledge (security to payment)

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        Declension of pant (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
        singular plural
        nominative pant pandid
        accusative nom.
        gen. pandi
        genitive pantide
        partitive panti pante
        pantisid
        illative panti
        pandisse         		pantidesse
        pandesse
        inessive pandis pantides
        pandes
        elative pandist pantidest
        pandest
        allative pandile pantidele
        pandele
        adessive pandil pantidel
        pandel
        ablative pandilt pantidelt
        pandelt
        translative pandiks pantideks
        pandeks
        terminative pandini pantideni
        essive pandina pantidena
        abessive pandita pantideta
        comitative pandiga pantidega
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        References

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        • pant in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
        • “pant”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

        Icelandic

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        Etymology

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        Childish alteration of panta (“to reserve”).

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        pant (defective verb)

        1. (colloquial, childish) I call dibs! (used when claiming a right to be the first or only one to do something)
          Pant velja tónlistina. ― I call dibs on choosing the music.
          Ég pant vera R2-D2, þú mátt vera C3PO. ― I call dibs on being R2-D2, you can be C3PO.

        Middle English

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        pant

        1. alternative form of panten

        Norwegian Bokmål

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        Etymology

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        From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr.

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        pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta or pantene)

        1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
        2. a mortgage
        3. security (on a loan)
        4. a forfeit (in a game)
        5. a pledge
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        pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural panter, definite plural pantene)

        1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

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        Norwegian Nynorsk

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        Etymology

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        From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr.

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        pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta)

        1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
        2. a mortgage
        3. security (on a loan)
        4. a forfeit (in a game)
        5. a pledge
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        pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural pantar, definite plural pantane)

        1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

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        Serbo-Croatian

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from Austrian German Band.

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        pȁnt m inan (Cyrillic spelling па̏нт)

        1. hinge

        Declension

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        Declension of pant
        singular plural
        nominative pȁnt panti
        genitive panta panta
        dative pantu pantima
        accusative pant pante
        vocative pantu panti
        locative pante pantima
        instrumental pantom pantima

        Swedish

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        A bottle with 2 kr container deposit.

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        Inherited from Old Swedish panter (“deposit”). From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr. First attested in the early half of the 14th century[1].

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        pant c

        1. pledge, pawn, item deposited at a pawnshop or otherwise given as a security
        2. container deposit, an addition to the price of an article returned when its container is returned to a collection point for re-use
          Det är pant på flaskan.
          The bottle carries a deposit.
          Cola 33cl, 15 kr +pant
          Cola 33cl, 15 kr +deposit
        3. (by extension) item that has container deposit
          • 2022 September 26, Rikard Ljungqvist, Hem & Hyra‎[2]:
            Titel: Kastade pant från femte våningen mot värdens personal – därför slipper hon vräkning
            Headline: Threw bottles and cans from fifth floor at landlord’s staff – why she avoids eviction

        Declension

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        Declension of pant
        nominative genitive
        singular indefinite pant pants
        definite panten pantens
        plural indefinite panter panters
        definite panterna panternas

        Derived terms

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        (pledge, pawn):

        (container deposit):

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        • panta (“to pawn; to return container”)

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        1. ^ “pant”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

        Welsh

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        Etymology

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        From Proto-Celtic *kʷantyos "flat hill", compare Pictish ᚘᚐᚅᚈ (pant, “hollow”).

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        pant m (plural pantiau)

        1. hollow, depression, small valley, dingle, dell

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        Mutated forms of pant
        radical soft nasal aspirate
        pant bant mhant phant

        Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
        All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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        • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “pant”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
        • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “pant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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