pando

Clipping of pandemic + -o.

pando

1. (Australia, slang) A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).
   • [2020 August 20, David Shariatmadari, “Pando, Miss Rona and Covid Toe: how the language of a disease develops – shaped by fear and prejudice”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-28:

     We have crunched Covid-19 to Covid; the specific coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is mostly now "coronavirus", and has been joined by "the pandemic" (for some in Australia, the "pando"), "'rona" and even "miss Rona".]

   • 2021 September 30, u/ThrustersOnFull, “what are some of the professions that are slowly dying ?”, in Reddit‎, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 2024-02-19:

     Had a radio job before the pando, now I don't. I went to school for it too. Now I gotta change gears and don't know howwwww

   • 2023 May 9, u/Magnus_Veritas, “CTA Hoses Train Cars Down With Fresh Piss”, in Reddit‎, r/chicago, archived from the original on 2023-05-09:

     Pre-pando things were really going well. It's such a shame

   • 2023 December 4, u/TimothyOilypants, “Out in the wild”, in Reddit‎:

     I really hope the next pando is more effective... ¶ I feel like COVID didn't come through on its promise.

From French panda, Russian па́нда (pánda).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpando]
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• Rhymes: -ando
• Hyphenation: pan‧do

pando (accusative singular pandon, plural pandoj, accusative plural pandojn)

1. panda

   Hyponyms: pandidino (“female panda cub”), pandido (“panda cub”), pandino (“she-panda”), virpando (“male panda”)

   Holonym: pandaro (“pack of pandas”)

From Latin pandus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpandʊ]

pando (feminine panda, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandas)

1. concave; caved in

   Synonym: afundido

• apandar

• “pando” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pando” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pando” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”). Cognate with pateō, Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon, “leaf”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.doː/, [ˈpän̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.do/, [ˈpän̪d̪o]

pandō (present infinitive pandere, perfect active pandī, supine passum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to spread or open (out), extend

   Synonyms: extendō, distendō, porrigō, prōlongō, prōtrahō, trahō, prōferō, explicō

2. (transitive) to unfold or expand
3. (transitive) to spread out to dry
4. (transitive) to expose, narrate

   Synonyms: referō, ferō, prōdō, trādō, dicitur

• →? English: Pando

From pandus (“turned”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix).

pandō (present infinitive pandāre, perfect active pandāvī, supine pandātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to bend, curve anything
2. (intransitive) to bend (oneself)

• Spanish: pandar, apandar, empandar, pandear, pandeada
• From an unattested Vulgar Latin “in + *pindare”
  • Sicilian: mpinnari

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pandō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pandus

• “pando1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pando2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pando”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pando in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pando in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set the sails: vela facere, pandere
    

From Latin pandus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpando/ [ˈpãn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ando
• Syllabification: pan‧do

pando (feminine panda, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandas)

1. crooked, bent
2. shallow (water)
3. sluggish, slow (moving slowly)
4. (El Salvador) unlucky (having bad luck)

pando m (plural pandos)

1. plain (open flat land between mountains)

   Synonym: llano

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