Etymograph

English

panicum

Panicum comes from New Latin panicum ‘panicgrass’.

  1. New Latinc. 1500–1900panicum‘panicgrass’
  2. mulmodernPanicum
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2008panicum

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. New Latinc. 1500–1900panicum‘panicgrass’
  2. mulmodernPanicum
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2008panicum

Earliest quotation: 2008, Steve Bailey, A Weekend Home That’s Straight Out of a Dream: “And his property might remind someone of the dunes…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- ‘to twist’

spin, 11 more

through Latin pānis ‘bread’

company, pain, companion, accompaniment, pannier, 12 more

through New Latin panicum ‘panicgrass’

bannock, 2 more

Today it means

noun Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.

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

Etymograph / New Latin panicum / panicum

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