Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian panne , ponne , Middle Dutch panne (Dutch pan ), Old Saxon panna (Middle Low German panne , German regional (Low German) pann , panne ), Old High German phanna , pfanna (Middle High German phanne , pfanne , German Pfanne ), further etymology uncertain; perhaps < classical Latin panna a kind of earthenware vessel (in a number of inscriptions from Germany and southern France), a kind of iron vessel (in an undated glossary), in post-classical Latin also kettle (12th cent. in a German source), dripping-pan (mid 16th cent. in a British source), although this is itself of uncertain origin (it is perhaps a variant of patina , patena (see paten n.), with elision of the vowel of the 2nd syllable and assimilation of -tn- to -nn-, but the localization of the early examples perhaps argues against this). Since the word has undergone the sound shift from p to pf in Old High German and occurs in Old English as well as in continental West Germanic languages, it must have been an early loan, if borrowed from Latin. Compare (probably < Middle Low German) Old Icelandic panna (in late sources), Old Swedish panna (Swedish panna), Danish pande.Irish panna is probably borrowed from English, and Welsh pann from Latin panna . Sense 7c was probably reinforced by South African Dutch pan small lake. With sense 10b compare pan v.³ 4. Sense 12, according to local traditions, originated before the end of World War II but is apparently unattested in writing at this date.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin panna squared timber, wall-plate (from late 12th cent. in British sources, from early 14th cent. in continental sources) and its probable etymon Anglo-Norman panne and Old French pasne, parne, panne (c1160), Middle French, French panne, probably < post-classical Latin patena manger (late 4th cent.) or its etymon ancient Greek ϕάτνη (in Hellenistic Greek also πάθνη , which may in fact be the earlier form) manger, in Hellenistic Greek also coffered work in a ceiling, of uncertain origin; perhaps < the same Indo-European base as bin n. Compare Old Occitan padenal part of a mill (1375), Occitan panna, parna strap hinge of a door, pana horizontal beam, wall-plate, Galician padea wall-plate, and also German regional (south-western) Pfette beam supporting the rafters (16th cent.). Perhaps compare also post-classical Latin panna part of mill, (perhaps) socket (1293, 1301 in British sources), patina axle-plate (of mill) (1290 in a British source).What is apparently the same post-classical Latin word is very frequent in the 13th-cent. Close Rolls in the forms (as printed) pauna and palna , which are difficult (unless ultimately transmission errors or misreadings) to reconcile with panna and Anglo-Norman panne :1225 in T. D. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum (1844) II. 65 Habere faciat..duos postes & duas paunas in bosco nostro.1225 in T. D. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum (1844) II. 65 viij. postes viij. t^abes viij. palnas et C. cheverones.1225 in T. D. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum (1844) II. 104 Centum cheverones x. postes et xij. paunas.1225 in T. D. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum (1844) II. 137 xxx. cheverones q^atuor t^abes et q^atuor palnas. For the collocation with Latin postis in these quots. see the note on post and pan under main sense.

Etymology: < classical Latin Pān < ancient Greek Πάν, the name of a god of flocks, herds and the pastoral world in Greek mythology.

Etymology: < French pan part of a vertical construction in building (c1150 in Old French), face of a bastion (1690), specific senses of pan pane n.²In sense 2 apparently partly the result of confusion between pan n.² and pane n.² 9: see note at pan n.² With sense 1, compare isolated borrowing of French pan coupé (1676):1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 284/2 Pan Coupé,..the salient angle of a place-at-arms, filled up to form a short face or a curve for musketry fire on the salient, or for one or two guns placed en barbette.

Etymology: < Chinese bǎn (Wade-Giles transcription pan ) board, plank. Compare paiban n. O.E.D. Suppl. (1982) treats this as non-naturalized, and gives only the pronunciation (ban) /ban/.

Etymology: < Chinese pán (Wade-Giles transcription p'an) tray, plate, dish.

Etymology: Either < pan v.⁴, or independently shortened < either panorama n. or panoramic adj. Compare panoram v.With sense 2 compare pan v.⁴ 3.

Etymology: Shortened < panguingue n.

Etymology: Shortened < panchromatic adj. Compare earlier ortho adj.²

Etymology: < pan n.²

Etymology: Origin unknown.For a suggested derivation < pan n.² (compare pan v.¹) see quot. 1894 at sense 1.

Etymology: < pan n.¹With sense 2 compare slightly earlier panning n.¹ 2a.