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Pandus

arched, bowed

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. pandus — de Vaan

pandus 'arched, bowed' (Enn.+), Panda 'a Roman goddess' (Varro+); dispandere 'to open out' [PL dispennite, ppp. dispessum] (P1.+), expandere 'to spread out* (Caecil.+), praepondere 'to spread in front, reveal' (Laev.+), repandus 'flattened back' (LuciL+), repandirdstrus 'having aflattenedsnout' (Pac). Pit *pand-n-, *pat<-. It. cognates: O. patanai [dat.sg.] '?', name of a deity; O. patensins [3p.ipf.sb.] 'to open' < … — [de Vaan, s.v. pandus, p. 456]

2. pandus — Lewis & Short

pandus, a, um, adj.2. pando,

I bent, crooked, curved (mostly poet.; syn.: curvus, uncus): carina, Enn. ap. Vet. Schol. in Stat. Achill. 1, 558 (Ann. v. 560 Vahl.); Verg. G 2, 445: rami, Ov M. 14, 660: juga, id. Am 1, 13, 16: juvencae pandis cornibus, id. M. 10, 271: delphines, id. Tr. 3, 10, 43: rostrum, id. M. 10, 713: asellus, crook-backed, id. A. A. 1, 543: pandā urceus ansā, Mart. 14, 106, 1; Sil. 3, 277.—In prose: hominem nigrum et macrum et pandum, Quint. 6, 3, 58: cupressus et pinus habentes umoris abundantiam in operibus solent esse pandae, to warp, Vitr. 2, 9.—

II Pandus, i, m., a Roman surname: Latinius Pandus, Tac. A. 2, 66.

In the wild

pandum Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.54
Pande Petronius, Satyricon 121
pandos Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.6.p13
Pande Ausonius, Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 3.37
pandum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.58
Pande Seneca, Hercules 1

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. pandus (scan pp. 456-457; entry #1242). Root candidates: *pandn-, *patto-, *peth2-.

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