panus

Latin panus

panus

1. (medicine) A lymphatic gland that is inflamed but not suppurating.

• panus faucium
• panus inguinalis

• American Illustrated Medical Dictionary (1922).

• Pusan, punas

From Doric Greek πᾶνος (pânos, “thread on the bobbin; bobbin”) (which equals Attic Greek πῆνος (pênos); more commonly attested in the diminutive πᾱνίον (pāníon) / πηνίον (pēníon)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pank-.

Related to Ancient Greek πένομαι (pénomai, “to toil”) (which apparently got generalized from some domestic work), Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *pínˀtei > Lithuanian pìnti, Latvian pīt (“to twist, to weave, to plait”), Proto-Slavic *pęti (“to stretch”), possibly Old East Slavic понѧва (ponęva) / Russian поня́ва (ponjáva, “blanket”), Old Church Slavonic поукъ (pukŭ) > Russian пук (puk, “bunch, tuft”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.nus/, [ˈpäːnʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.nus/, [ˈpäːnus]

pānus m (genitive pānī); second declension

1. ear of millet
2. the thread wound upon the bobbin
3. a swelling, tumor

Second-declension noun.

• pānicium
• pānicula
• pānicum
• *dēpānō (Vulgar Latin)

• >? Italian: pane
• → English: panus

• “panus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• panus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• panus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

From French pannus.

panus n (uncountable)

1. pannus