Etymology: < Anglo-Norman panter clap-net, snare (mid 13th cent. or earlier), Old French pantiere (1240; Middle French, French pantière ; also attested as †panthiere (c1598)) < post-classical Latin panthera fowling net (11th cent.; perhaps already in classical Latin in Varro, where editors emend panthēr , denoting a kind of net, to panthēra ), transferred use of classical Latin panthēra a birdcatcher's whole catch (2nd cent. a.d.) < ancient Greek παν- pan- comb. form + θήρα hunt < θηρᾶν to hunt or its etymon θήρ wild beast (see thero- comb. form). Compare Byzantine Greek πάνθηρος supporting all animals (of the earth). Compare Italian pantera (13th cent.; 1598 in Florio as pantiera glossed as ‘a kind of tramell or fowling net’).

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman paneter, panetier, pannetier, paintier pantry-man, panter, baker and Old French, Middle French, French panetier, pannetier panter (c1200; c1170 as penetier ), baker (c1330; 1260 as paneter ) < pain bread (see pain n.²) + -etier , extended form of -ier -er suffix² (compare Middle French, French †paneter to knead bread (c1304), to supply with bread (1350 in an isolated attestation)). Compare Old Occitan panatier , panetier , Catalan paneter , Spanish panadero (c1335), Italian panettiere (13th cent. as panattiere ), post-classical Latin panaterius , panetarius , paneterius , panitarius baker (from 11th cent.), officer in charge of the pantry (frequently from the second half of the 12th cent. in British and continental sources). Compare pantler n., panterer n.Frequent in surnames from the 13th cent. (as le Panetier , le Paneter , le Panetir , le Panter , etc.), although these seem more likely to reflect the Anglo-Norman than the Middle English word. The following further forms are attested for the surname in Older Scots: panitar , panyter , and (although it is possible that some may instead show painter n.¹) pantare, panteir, panter, panther, pantre, paunter.

Etymology: < pant v. + -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a sense development of panter n.² (perhaps compare breadbasket n. 2 for the possible semantic development) or of panter n.³ It is also unclear whether the two senses given in the quot. 1706 represent a single word or two separate words of different origins.