# panter
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpæntə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From pant +‎ -er.

#### Noun

panter (plural panters)
* One who pants.
** c. 1700, William Congreve, On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing:Swiftly the gentle Charmer flies, / And to the tender Grief soft Air applies, / Which, warbling Mystic sounds, / Cements the bleeding Panter's Wounds.
** 1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume 60, page 492:Reputation—a mere barren reputation, that brings nothing with it, save a post obit bond on posterity—has lost its ancient value: and the panters after posthumous reputation are now closely confined to a few wrongheaded enthusiasts, […]

### Etymology 2

From Middle English panter (“noose for fowl”), from Old French pantiere, from Latin panthēra (“entire catch”), from Ancient Greek πανθήρα (panthḗra). Cognate with and closely related to pantle.

#### Noun

panter (plural panters)
* (obsolete) A net; a noose.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English panter (“pantler”), paneter, from Old French panetier.

#### Noun

panter (plural panters)
* (obsolete) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
** a. 1536, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue:as though all the bread be committed unto the panter

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

panter (plural panters)
* Obsolete form of panther.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “panter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

### References

* “panter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “panter”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, parent, trepan

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* panther

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpantɛr]

### Noun

panter m anim (relational adjective panteří)
* panther

#### See also

* levhart
* pardál

### Noun

panter m inan
* Panther tank (World War II German tank)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “panter”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “panter”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “panter”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

From Latin panthera

### Noun

panter c (singular definite panteren, plural indefinite pantere)
* Panther.

#### Inflection
## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* panther (before 1934)

### Etymology

From Middle Dutch pantera, from Latin panthera, possibly via Middle French panthère.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɑn.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pan‧ter

### Noun

panter m (plural panters, diminutive pantertje n)
* panther, leopard (Panthera pardus)
    Synonyms: luipaard, pardel

#### Derived terms

* panterprint
* sneeuwpanter

### Anagrams

* parten
* praten

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old French pantere, from Latin panthera, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr).

#### Alternative forms

* pantere, panther

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpantɛːr(ə)/, /ˈpantər(ə)/

#### Noun

panter (plural panteres or panteren)
* A panther (leopard or any wild cat)
* (rare, alchemy) An alchemical solution.

##### Descendants

* English: panther

##### References

* “pantē̆r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French panetier, penetier.

#### Alternative forms

* pantre, paniter, paneter, pantere, panytere

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpan(ə)teːr/, /ˈpan(ə)tər/

#### Noun

panter (plural panters)
* A pantler (manager of the pantry and food)

##### Descendants

* English: panter

##### References

* “panetē̆r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old French pantiere, from Latin panthēra (“entire catch”), from Ancient Greek πανθήρα (panthḗra).

#### Alternative forms

* paunter, pantere, pantire, pantyr, panteere

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpanteːr(ə)/, /ˈpantər(ə)/

#### Noun

panter (plural panters)
* A noose for trapping fowl.
** c. 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women/Prologe
    The smalle fowles, of the season fain, That from the panter and the net ben scaped, Upon the fowler, that them made a-whaped In winter, and destroyed had their brood.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (figurative) That which ensnares; a lure.

##### Descendants

* English: panter (obsolete)
* English: pantle (obsolete, regional)

##### References

* “pauntē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

panter m (definite singular panteren, indefinite plural pantere or pantre or pantrer, definite plural panterne or pantrene)
* a panther (black leopard)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

panter m (definite singular panteren, indefinite plural panterar, definite plural panterane)
* a panther (black leopard)

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German pant, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Latin pannus (“piece of cloth”).

### Noun

panter
* deposit, pawn (item given as security)

#### Descendants

* Swedish: pant

### References

* pant in Svensk ordbok (SO)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpan.tɛr/
* Rhymes: -antɛr
* Syllabification: pan‧ter

### Noun

panter f
* genitive plural of pantera

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin panthera

### Noun

panter c
* a panther ((black) leopard)
    Synonym: leopard
    svart panterblack panther
* indefinite plural of pant

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | panter | panters |
| singular | definite | pantern | panterns |
| plural | indefinite | pantrar | pantrars |
| plural | definite | pantrarna | pantrarnas |

### References

* panter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* panter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* panter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* parten

## Turkish
### Etymology

From French panthère.

### Noun

panter (definite accusative panteri, plural panterler)
* panther
    Synonyms: pars, pelenk

#### Declension
### References

* “panter”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu