pantois

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French pantaisier/pantoisier, from Vulgar Latin pantasiare. Cognate with Old Occitan pantaizar/pantaissar/pantaiar, Sicilian pantasciari, Neapolitan pantasiari, Catalan pantaixar.

Adjective

pantois (feminine pantoise, masculine plural pantois, feminine plural pantoises)

gobsmacked, stunned, flabbergasted

Further reading

“pantois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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