Pandora

See also: pandora, Pandóra, and Pandorą

Translingual

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Entomophthoraceae – certain fungi not placed within a phylum.

Hypernyms

Hypernyms

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρᾱ (Pandṓrā, all gifts).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌpænˈdɔɹə/

Proper noun

Pandora

  1. (Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.
  2. (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.
  3. (astronomy) 55 Pandora, a main belt asteroid.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Basque

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pandoɾa/ [pãn̪.d̪o.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandora anim

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Declension

Further reading

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑndorɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝ndo̞rɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑndorɑ
  • Syllabification(key): Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandora

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

Pandora

  1. Rōmaji transcription of パンドラ

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pandōra f sg (genitive Pandōrae); first declension

  1. Pandora
    • (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia, 36, 19 — C. Plini Secundi naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Ianus. Vol. V. Libb. XXXIII–XXXVII. Lipsia, 1878, p. 108:
      in basi autem quod caelatum est Pandoras genesin appellavit, di sunt nascenti adstantes XX numero.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      • The Natural History of Pliny. Translated, with copious notes and illustrations by the late John Bostock and H. T. Riley. Vol. VI. With general index. London, 1857, p. 311:
        To the story chased upon the pedestal of the statue the name of the "Birth of Pandora"29 has been given; and the figures of new-born30 gods to be seen upon it are no less than twenty in number.

      29 "Pandoras Genesis."
      30 Sillig is of opinion that this passage is corrupt, and is inclined to think, with Panofka, that the reading should be "nascenti adstantes," – gods "standing by the new-born" Pandora

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Pandōra
Genitive Pandōrae
Dative Pandōrae
Accusative Pandōram
Ablative Pandōrā
Vocative Pandōra

References

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

Lithuanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora, the world's first woman

Declension

Derived terms

  • Pandoros skrynia

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Norwegian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /panˈdɔ.ra/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔra
  • Syllabification: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Declension

Further reading

  • Pandora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Pandora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɐ̃ˈdɔ.ɾɐ/

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora (woman who released evil into the world)

Derived terms

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /panˈdo.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ora
  • Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pandǒːra/
  • Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandóra f (Cyrillic spelling Пандо́ра)

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /panˈdoɾa/ [pãn̪ˈd̪o.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandora f

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Pandora c (genitive Pandoras)

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

  1. (Greek mythology) Pandora
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