Where does “panda” come from?

panda (Spanish) comes from Latin pandus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

panda (Spanish): gang, bunch; feminine singular of pando; panda

Definitions

  1. gang, bunch; feminine singular of pando; panda

Ancestry of “panda”, step by step

panda traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin pandus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpandusbend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked
2Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
3Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
4Proto-Italic-os—
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

via French panda

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpandapanda
2Russianпа́ндаpanda (Ailurus fulgens)

Words derived from “panda”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →