panic English · revision 13

+ ==Etymology==

+ First recorded as an adjective in 1603, in phrases such as ''panic fear'',^(MW Collegiate)^(OED 1989) and as a noun in 1708.^(MW Collegiate)^(Etymonline) It is [[bor|frm|panique]],^(Wiktionary)^(RHWU) [[der|grc|πανικός|tr=panikós|t=of Pan]],^(OED 1989)^(MW Collegiate) from [[grc|Πάν|tr=Pán]], god of woods and fields.^(Etymonline) Sounds heard by night on mountains and in valleys were attributed to Pan, and so he was reputed to be the cause of any sudden, groundless fear.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ Unrelated to [[panic grass]], which is [[der|la|pānicum|t=a kind of millet]].^(RHWU)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==References==

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