pantとは

語源 1

From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.

Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

名詞

pant (複数形 pants)

1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
2. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene viii], page 360, column 2:

     To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, / Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' the world, / Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all; / Through proof of harness to my heart, and there / Ride on the pants triumphing.

参照

• pant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “pant” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

動詞

pant (三人称単数 現在形 pants, 現在分詞 panting, 過去形および過去分詞形 panted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
   • Dryden

     Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.

   • Shelley

     There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:

     Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed

2. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
   • Bible, Psalms xlii. 1

     As the hart panteth after the water brooks.

   • Alexander Pope

     Who pants for glory finds but short repose.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
   • Herbert

     Then shall our hearts pant thee.

4. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

5. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
   • Alexander Pope

     The whispering breeze / Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.

同意語

• (breathe quickly または in a labored manner): gasp
• (long for): crave, desire, long for, pine for
• (long eagerly): crave, desire, long, pine
• (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence): palpitate, pound, throb

語源 2

From pants

名詞

pant (複数形 pants)

1. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers または underpants).
2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

   Pant leg

派生語

語源 3

Unknown

名詞

pant (複数形 pants)

1. a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England

参照

• PMSA page with several examples
• OED 2nd edition

アナグラム

• APTN, NAPT, NPTA