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, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).
Meanings
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
(figuratively) Eager longing.
Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant. 1995, John C. Leggett, Suzanne Malm, The Eighteen Stages of Love, page 9:
(obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
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. c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii], page 360, column 2:
gl latexo (a violent palpitation of the heart) · it palpito (a quick breathing) · fr palpitation (a violent palpitation of the heart) · es palpitación (a violent palpitation of the heart) · ru пыхте́ние (a quick breathing) · fi läpätys (a violent palpitation of the heart) · ota صولوق (a quick breathing) · el αγκομαχητό (a quick breathing) · ca esbufec (a quick breathing) · ru оды́шка (a quick breathing) · ja 息切れ (a quick breathing) · is más (a quick breathing) · es jadeo (a quick breathing) · it anelito (a quick breathing) · gd plosgadh (a quick breathing) · gl ampeo (a quick breathing) · cmn 喘急 (a quick breathing) · nl gehijg (a quick breathing) · mi whakaaeaeā (a quick breathing) · gd plosgadh (a violent palpitation of the heart) · it palpito (a violent palpitation of the heart) · cmn 呼吸 (a quick breathing) · fi huohotus (a quick breathing) · it pulsazione (a violent palpitation of the heart) · it batticuore (a violent palpitation of the heart) · it respiro affannoso (a quick breathing) · yi סאָפּען (a quick breathing) · cs zrychlený dech (a quick breathing) · ms ngah (a quick breathing) · bg пъхтене (a quick breathing) · gd plosg (a quick breathing) · gd plosg (a violent palpitation of the heart) · bg силно сърцебиене (a violent palpitation of the heart) · bg задъхване (a quick breathing) · it palpitazione (a violent palpitation of the heart) · sv flämtning (a quick breathing) · gl alasamento (a quick breathing) · it cardiopalmo (a violent palpitation of the heart) · fr halètement (a quick breathing) · mi kahekahe (a quick breathing) · eo anhelo (a quick breathing) · cs supot (a quick breathing) · it fiatone (a quick breathing) · tl paghingal (a quick breathing) · it ansito (a quick breathing) · gl arfada (a violent palpitation of the heart) · cs funění (a quick breathing) · pt ofego (a quick breathing) · ca panteix (a quick breathing) · it tachicardia (a violent palpitation of the heart) · de keuchen (a quick breathing) · ms mengah (a quick breathing) · cs lapání po dechu (a quick breathing) · pt arfagem (a quick breathing) · fi puuskutus (a quick breathing)
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, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).
Meanings
(ambitransitive) 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.
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 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish. 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound:
Pluto pants for breath from out his cell. 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
(intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
Anyway, one of the men who panted after Cleopatra was a Roman general named Marc Anthony, who became so enraptured with the idea of being Cleopatra’s sex slave that he set fire to Rome just to impress her. 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 35:
As the hart panteth after the water brooks. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 42:1:
(obsolete, transitive) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
Then shall our hearts pant thee. 1633, George Herbert, Love:
(intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
(intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
[T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees. 1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 750:
(intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
(intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
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Synonyms
gasp (breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · pine for (long for) · desire (long eagerly) · long for (long for) · palpitate (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · throb (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · pine (long eagerly) · crave (long eagerly) · desire (long for) · long (long eagerly) · pound (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · crave (long for)
Translations (114)
it boccheggiare (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · pt ofegar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · pt ansiar (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · sq dihat (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · pt palpitar (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · es anhelar (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · de (heftig) klopfen (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · it ansimare (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cmn 喘息 (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · mk бревта (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · gl ampear (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · sv flåsa (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · el αγκομαχάω (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · it adulare (5. sigh; flutter; languish) · bg разтупквам се (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · de hecheln (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · mi taretare (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · fi hakata (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · la anhēlō (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cs funět (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · it pulsare (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · eo anheli (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · mi whakahotuhotu (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · pl dyszeć (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · it anelare (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · fr désirer (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · es acezar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cmn 喘氣 /喘气 (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ru тоскова́ть (5. sigh; flutter; languish) · az tıncıxmaq (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ru колоти́ться (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · it desiderare (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · fi läähättää (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · nl hijgen (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · fi läpättää (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · hu liheg (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · gl arfar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · bg пъхтя (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · hu vágyódik (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · mi whakaaeaea (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · gl abarquiñar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · is mása (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · de heftig verlangen nach (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · es resollar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · pt arfar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · es ijadear (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cs hekat (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · fi puuskuttaa (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · mi huatare (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · hu sóvárog (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · cs toužit (2. intransitive: long eagerly) · wa haner (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · de dürsten nach (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · cs supět (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ru задыха́ться (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ru запы́хаться (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · fa رخیدن (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · es resolgar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ru трепета́ть (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · it aspirare (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · ru пыхте́ть (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cmn 氣喘吁吁 (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · sv flämta (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ang sworettan (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · tl hingalin (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · grc ἀσπαίρω (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cs těžce oddechovat (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cs bušit (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · mi kahekahe (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · es anhelar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · es jadear (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · fr haleter (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cs tepat (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · gd plosg (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · de pochen (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · gl alasar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · bg копнея (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · bg задъхвам се (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · mi kuhakuha (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ru томи́ться (5. sigh; flutter; languish) · gl acorar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · de lechzen nach (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · it bramare (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · ca esbufegar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cs toužit (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · wa panti (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ota صولومق (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · pt arquejar (2. intransitive: long eagerly) · he הִתְנַשֵּׁף (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ru запыха́ться (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · az təngnəfəs olmaq (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · hu vágyik (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · fi huohottaa (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · de keuchen (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · mi tūngāngā (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · de schnaufen (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · hu zihál (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · ja 喘ぐ (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · cs ztěžka/zrychleně dýchat (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · it struggersi (2. intransitive: long eagerly) · pt arquejar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · el λαχανιάζω (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · it blandire (5. sigh; flutter; languish) · gd plosg (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · it palpitare (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · es acezar (2. intransitive: long eagerly) · mi kihakiha (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · it ansare (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · it sospirare (5. sigh; flutter; languish) · ca panteixar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · fi kaivata (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager for (something)) · lb hechelen (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) · fr palpiter (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) · es harbar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-énts
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts?
Proto-Hellenic *pánts
Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)
Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)
Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn)
Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)der.
Italian Pantalonebor.
French pantalonbor.
English pantaloon
English pantaloons
English pantsbf.
English pant
Back-formation from pants.
Meanings
A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
To commemorate our 50th anniversary we've rolled out a new pant with our signature blue and white seams.
(attributive) Of or relating to pants.
pant leg
(colloquial, nonstandard) A leg on a pair of trousers.
he rolled up one of the black trouser pants on his left leg and searched for a vein. 2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills, XLibrisUS, page 246: