Pandora
Translingual
    
    Etymology
    
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
    
Pandora f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Entomophthoraceae – certain fungi not placed within a phylum.
Hypernyms
    
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Eomycota - subkingdom; Zygomycota - phylum; Entomophthoromycotina - subphylum; Entomophthorales - order; Entomophthoraceae - family
Hypernyms
    
- (genus): Pandora neoaphidis - type species
References
    
 Pandora on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia Pandora on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia
 Pandora on  Wikispecies.Wikispecies Pandora on  Wikispecies.Wikispecies
 Category:Entomophthoraceae on  Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Category:Entomophthoraceae on  Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρᾱ (Pandṓrā, “all gifts”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˌpænˈdɔɹə/
Proper noun
    
Pandora
Derived terms
    
Translations
    
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Anagrams
    
Basque
    
    Etymology
    
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /pandoɾa/ [pãn̪.d̪o.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -oɾa
- Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra
Declension
    
| indefinite | |
|---|---|
| absolutive | Pandora | 
| ergative | Pandorak | 
| dative | Pandorari | 
| genitive | Pandoraren | 
| comitative | Pandorarekin | 
| causative | Pandorarengatik | 
| benefactive | Pandorarentzat | 
| instrumental | Pandoraz | 
| inessive | Pandorarengan | 
| locative | — | 
| allative | Pandorarengana | 
| terminative | Pandorarenganaino | 
| directive | Pandorarenganantz | 
| destinative | Pandorarenganako | 
| ablative | Pandorarengandik | 
| partitive | Pandorarik | 
| prolative | Pandoratzat | 
Further reading
    
- “82.- Grezia eta Erromako pertsonaia mitologikoak [Greek and Roman mythological characters]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 1998
Catalan
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Danish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Dutch
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Finnish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑndorɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝ndo̞rɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑndorɑ
- Syllabification(key): Pan‧do‧ra
German
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Italian
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Latin
    
    Etymology
    
From Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- (Classical) IPA(key): /panˈdoː.ra/, [pän̪ˈd̪oːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /panˈdo.ra/, [pän̪ˈd̪ɔːrä]
Proper noun
    
Pandōra f sg (genitive Pandōrae); first declension
- 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
 
 
- (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:
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).
Declension
    
Derived terms
    
- Pandoros skrynia
Luxembourgish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Norwegian
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Polish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /panˈdɔ.ra/
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ɔra
- Syllabification: Pan‧do‧ra
Declension
    
Portuguese
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /pɐ̃ˈdɔ.ɾɐ/
Derived terms
    
Romanian
    
    Alternative forms
    
- Пандора (Pandora) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /panˈdo.ra/
- Rhymes: -ora
- Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra
Serbo-Croatian
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /pandǒːra/
- Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra
Spanish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /panˈdoɾa/ [pãn̪ˈd̪o.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -oɾa
- Syllabification: Pan‧do‧ra
Derived terms
    
Further reading
    
- “Pandora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).
Pronunciation
    
- Audio - (file) 
Related terms
    
Turkish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).