English
panicgrass
Panicgrass comes from Latin pānicum ‘Italian millet’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpānicum‘Italian millet’
- Englishtodaypanicgrass
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpānicum‘Italian millet’
- Englishtodaypanicgrass
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- ‘to twist’
through Latin pānis ‘bread’
company, pain, companion, accompaniment, pannier, 12 more
through Latin pānicum ‘Italian millet’
Today it means
noun Any of several of the species of grass in the genus Panicum.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pānicum / panicgrass