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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=Lucilius|origins=grc πῆνος}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpaː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpaː.nus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''pānus''' ''m'' (genitive pānī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ In the sense “spool” it is probably [[bor|grc-dor|πᾶνος|tr=pânos|t=thread on a bobbin]], the Doric form of Attic [[m|grc|πῆνος|tr=pênos|t=yarn]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) In the sense “abscess” it has been compared with [[ru|пук|tr=puk|t=bunch]] and [[ru|пучить|tr=púčitʹ|t=to swell]], from a root *pnHk-, which Schrijver thinks gives the Latin word regularly, but de Vaan finds it just as likely that the word for a spool was used by metaphor for a swelling and a tuft.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from Lucilius, who mentions the spool of weft beside the upright spindle.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Lucilius c. 180–102 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a spool wound with thread, the bobbin in a shuttle.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Afranius used it of a kind of superficial abscess, named for its shape, and Pliny the Elder of the main stalk of a panicle in millet.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Its diminutive ''pānicula'' meant a tuft, the feathery head of reeds and grasses, and a kind of wart.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ [[en|panicle]] comes from that diminutive, and English ''panus'' was borrowed as a medical term.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of a spool.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 2nd century BC – Afranius uses it of an abscess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of a stalk of millet.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|spool]] wound with thread, [[m|en|bobbin]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # A kind of superficial [[m|en|abscess]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # The main stalk of a [[m|en|panicle]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[pānicula]]
+ * [[paniculus]]
+ * [[pānicum]]
+ * [[pānicium]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|panicle]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}