# pando
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of pandemic + -o.

### Noun

pando
* (Australia, UK, slang) A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).
** [2020 August 20, David Shariatmadari, “Pando, Miss Rona and Covid Toe: how the language of a disease develops – shaped by fear and prejudice”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-28:We have crunched Covid-19 to Covid; the specific coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is mostly now "coronavirus", and has been joined by "the pandemic" (for some in Australia, the "pando"), "'rona" and even "miss Rona".]
** 2021 September 30, u/ThrustersOnFull, “what are some of the professions that are slowly dying ?”, in Reddit‎, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 2024-02-19:Had a radio job before the pando, now I don't. I went to school for it too. Now I gotta change gears and don't know howwwww
** 2023 May 9, u/Magnus_Veritas, “CTA Hoses Train Cars Down With Fresh Piss”, in Reddit‎, r/chicago, archived from the original on 2023-05-09:Pre-pando things were really going well. It's such a shame
** 2023 December 4, u/TimothyOilypants, “Out in the wild”, in Reddit‎, archived from the original on 19 February 2024:I really hope the next pando is more effective... ¶ I feel like COVID didn't come through on its promise.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From French panda, Russian па́нда (pánda).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpando]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ando
* Hyphenation: pan‧do

### Noun

pando (accusative singular pandon, plural pandoj, accusative plural pandojn)
* panda
    Hyponyms: pandidino (“female panda cub”), pandido (“panda cub”), pandino (“she-panda”), virpando (“male panda”)
    Holonym: pandaro (“pack of pandas”)

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin pandus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpandʊ]

### Adjective

pando (feminine panda, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandas)
* concave; caved in
    Synonym: afundido

#### Derived terms

* apandar

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pando”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pando”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pando”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”). Cognate with pateō, Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon, “leaf”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpan.doː/, [ˈpän̪d̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpan.do/, [ˈpän̪d̪o]

#### Verb

pandō (present infinitive pandere, perfect active pandī, supine passum); third conjugation
* (transitive) to spread or open (out), extend
    Synonyms: extendō, distendō, porrigō, prōlongō, prōtrahō, trahō, prōferō, explicō
* (transitive) to unfold or expand
* (transitive) to spread out to dry
* (transitive) to expose, narrate
    Synonyms: referō, ferō, prōdō, trādō, dicitur

##### Derived terms

* expandō
* oppandō
* Panda
* pānsa
* passim
* passus

##### Descendants

* → Italian: pandere
* →⇒ Catalan: pansa
* →⇒ English: Pando

### Etymology 2

From pandus (“turned”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix).

#### Verb

pandō (present infinitive pandāre, perfect active pandāvī, supine pandātum); first conjugation
* (transitive) to bend, curve anything
* (intransitive) to bend (oneself)

##### Descendants

* From an unattested Vulgar Latin *in + *pindo:
** Sicilian: mpinnari
* ⇒ Spanish: pandar, apandar, empandar, pandear, pandeada

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

pandō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pandus

### References

* “pando1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pando2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pando”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* pando in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* pando in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to set the sails: vela facere, pandere

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin pandus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpando/ [ˈpãn̪.d̪o]
* Rhymes: -ando
* Syllabification: pan‧do

### Adjective

pando (feminine panda, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandas)
* crooked, bent
* shallow (water)
* sluggish, slow (moving slowly)
* (El Salvador) unlucky (having bad luck)

#### Derived terms

* apandar
* pandear

### Noun

pando m (plural pandos)
* plain (open flat land between mountains)
    Synonym: llano

### Further reading

* “pando”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10