pan – English noun declension

English noun forms of pan

Noun: pan
Singularpan
Pluralpans; pen

Sample Sentences

  • The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed. [1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10:]
  • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
  • She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the sheets! Unreal.
  • "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan." [1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:]
  • Dave and I have parted company, and I hope I never see his junky pan again. [1993, William S. Burroughs, edited by Oliver Harris, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, page 92:]
  • This was the kind of operator who would tell you to be there at nine sharp and if you weren't sitting quietly with a pleased smile on your pan when he floated in two hours later on a double Gibson, he would have a paroxysm of outraged executive ability […]. [1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 103:]
  • Holonym: firearm
  • flash in the pan
  • […] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say […] [1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, pages 95–96:]
  • And he […] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with a snatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again; and, as he did, kept opening and shutting the pan with a snap, […] [1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:]
  • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Friar's Tale,
  • Unto the devil rough and black of hue
  • Give I thy body and my pan also."
  • The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members. [2009, Pnina Werbner, Black and Ethnic Leaderships, page 122:]

Nouns inflected like pan

socman, shaman, yarraman, Pokeyman, femmefan, Bosjesman, Discman, sokeman, sockman, zinefan, drogman, femme fan, Trekfan, Turkman, Fennoman, dragoman, pokeyman, eofan, pan, stfan, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Pre-Greekder.?
4. Ancient Greek πᾰτᾰ́νη (pătắnē)bor.
5. Latin patina?
6. Latin pannabor.?
7. Proto-Germanic *pannǭ
8. Proto-West Germanic *pannā
9. Old English panne
10. Middle English panne
11. English pan
12. From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ. Further origin uncertain.
13. Alois Walde firstly suggests that it might be from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek. But the sound shifting from /patina/ → /patna/ → /panna/ raises questions as -tn- to -nn- is rarely seen in Latin.
14. The mainstream theory as of now (Friedrich Kluge, Julius Pokorny, Guus Kroonen) suggests that it is from Late Latin panna. But its sparse attestation only in the frontier inscriptions and not widespread in most Romance languages raises doubts among a few scholars (notably Michiel de Vaan), being skeptical about its origin, and open for any interpretations (Oxford English Dictionary).
15. Vladmir Orel, in his work Albanian Etymological Dictionary, suggests that both Proto-Germanic *pannǭ and Late Latin panna could be from a non-IE Mediterranean substrate word, considering that classical Latin attestations are scarce and distributed in a specific region, and Proto-Germanic loanwords from non-IE substrates often include agricultural terms, seafaring vocabulary, or animal names. Although, this substrate hypothesis is controversial and most scholars remain skeptical about it.
16. In either case of relationship to the Latin, the English word is a doublet of patina; see there for more doublets and further detail.
17. Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna. See: Middle English Nouns 'panne', Old English Nouns 'panne', Latin Nouns 'patina', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πατάνη', Dutch Nouns 'pan', German Nouns 'Pfanne', Danish Nouns 'pande', Swedish Nouns 'panna', Icelandic Nouns 'panna'.

Verbs referencing "pan"

Irish Nouns panna, Galician Nouns panela, Portuguese Nouns panela, Galician Nouns penico.