Word Origin Summary

Panthera is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. πανθήραAncient Greekderived from
2. πάνθηρAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Panthera onca

  Translingual · derived from

• Panthera tigris altaica

  Translingual · derived from

• pantera

  Italian · derived from

• panter

  English · inherited from

• panthère

  French · borrowed from

• panter

  Middle English · derived from

• Panthera tigris tigris

  Translingual · derived from

• pantera

  Spanish · derived from

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root