Etymograph

English

panel

Panel comes from Middle English panel ‘piece of cloth’, from Anglo-Norman panel, from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, a diminutive of Latin pannus ‘cloth’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpannus‘cloth’
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*pannellusreconstructeddiminutive of pannus
  3. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400panel
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500panel‘piece of cloth’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1557panel

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpannus‘cloth’
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*pannellusreconstructeddiminutive of pannus
  3. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400panel
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500panel‘piece of cloth’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1557panel

Earliest quotation: 1557, Thomas Tusser: “A panel and wanty, packsaddle and ped, with line…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- ‘fabric’

vane, fanon, fane, 2 more

Today it means

noun A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin pannus / panel

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