panicum

== English == === Etymology === From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”). === Noun === panicum (plural panicums) Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses. ==== Translations ==== === See also === panicum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia panicum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies panicum at USDA Plants database == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain, probably either from pānis (“bread; loaf”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to graze; to protect; to shepherd”)) or pānus (“ear of millet; thread wound on a bobbin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to twist; to weave”)) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.nɪ.kũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.ni.kum] === Noun === pānicum n (genitive pānicī); second declension Italian millet, foxtail millet (Setaria italica), panicgrass ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Synonyms ==== pānicium ==== Descendants ==== === References === “panicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “panicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “panicum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.