Pandora

Pandora

See also: pandora, Pandóra, and Pandorą

Translingual

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Entomophthoraceae – certain fungi not placed within a phylum.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Eomycota - subkingdom; Zygomycota - phylum; Entomophthoromycotina - subphylum; Entomophthorales - order; Entomophthoraceae - family

Hypernyms

• (genus): Pandora neoaphidis - type species

References

• Pandora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pandora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Entomophthoraceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρᾱ (Pandṓrā, “all gifts”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpænˈdɔɹə/

Proper noun

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.
2. (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.
3. (astronomy) 55 Pandora, a main belt asteroid.

Derived terms

• Pandora's box

Translations

Character in Greek mythology

Albanian: Pandorë f Basque: Pandora (eu) Catalan: Pandora Chinese: Mandarin: 潘多拉 (zh) (Pānduōlā) Czech: Pandóra f Danish: Pandora Dutch: Pandora f Esperanto: Pandoro Finnish: Pandora (fi) French: Pandore (fr) f German: Pandora f Greek: Πανδώρα (el) f (Pandóra) Greenlandic: Pandora Hebrew: פנדורה‎ Hungarian: Pandóra (hu) Inuktitut: ᐸᓐᑑᕋ (pantoora) Italian: Pandora f Japanese: パンドーラー (Pandōrā) Korean: 판도라 (ko) (Pandora) Latin: Pandōra f Lithuanian: Pandora (lt) f Luxembourgish: Pandora Marathi: पॅन्डोरा (pĕnḍorā) Norwegian: Pandora Polish: Pandora (pl) f Portuguese: Pandora (pt) f Romanian: Pandora f Russian: Пандо́ра (ru) f (Pandóra) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Пандо́ра f Roman: Pandóra (sh) f Spanish: Pandora f Swedish: Pandora Turkish: Pandora

Asteroid

French: Pandore (fr) f Polish: Pandora (pl) f

Anagrams

• paradon

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Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pandoɾa/, [pãn̪.d̪o̞.ɾa]

Proper noun

Pandora anim

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pənˈdo.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /panˈdo.ɾa/

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑndorɑ/, [ˈpɑndo̞rɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑndorɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Anagrams

• padrona, parando, rapando

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Japanese

Romanization

Pandora

1. Rōmaji transcription of パンドラ

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /panˈdoː.ra/, [pän̪ˈd̪oːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /panˈdo.ra/, [pän̪ˈd̪ɔːrä]

Proper noun

Pandōra f sg (genitive Pandōrae); first declension

1. Pandora
   • (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia, 36, 19 — C. Plini Secundi naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Ianus. Vol. V. Libb. XXXIII–XXXVII. Lipsia, 1878, p. 108:

     in basi autem quod caelatum est Pandoras genesin appellavit, di sunt nascenti adstantes XX numero.

     • The Natural History of Pliny. Translated, with copious notes and illustrations by the late John Bostock and H. T. Riley. Vol. VI. With general index. London, 1857, p. 311:

       To the story chased upon the pedestal of the statue the name of the "Birth of Pandora"²⁹ has been given; and the figures of new-born³⁰ gods to be seen upon it are no less than twenty in number.

     
     ²⁹ "Pandoras Genesis."
     ³⁰ Sillig is of opinion that this passage is corrupt, and is inclined to think, with Panofka, that the reading should be "nascenti adstantes," – gods "standing by the new-born" Pandora

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Pandōra
Genitive	Pandōrae
Dative	Pandōrae
Accusative	Pandōram
Ablative	Pandōrā
Vocative	Pandōra

References

• “Pandora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pandora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Lithuanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora, the world's first woman

Declension

    declension of Pandora

nominative	Pandora
genitive	Pandoros
dative	Pandorai
accusative	Pandorą
instrumental	Pandora
locative	Pandoroje
vocative	Pandora

Derived terms

• Pandoros skrynia

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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Norwegian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panˈdɔ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Declension

Declension of Pandora

	singular
nominative	Pandora
genitive	Pandory
dative	Pandorze
accusative	Pandorę
instrumental	Pandorą
locative	Pandorze
vocative	Pandoro

Further reading

• Pandora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Pandora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɐ̃ˈdɔ.ɾɐ/

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora (woman who released evil into the world)

Derived terms

• caixa de Pandora

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [panˈdora]

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pandǒːra/
• Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandóra f (Cyrillic spelling Пандо́ра)

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Declension

Declension of Pandora

	singular
nominative	Pandora
genitive	Pandore
dative	Pandori
accusative	Pandoru
vocative	Pandoro / Pandora
locative	Pandori
instrumental	Pandorom

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panˈdoɾa/ [pãn̪ˈd̪o.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandora f

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Derived terms

• caja de Pandora

Further reading

• “Pandora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora c (genitive Pandoras)

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora

Related terms

• Pandoras ask

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

1. (Greek mythology) Pandora