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Webster 1913 Edition

Pandora

Pan-do′ra

rop.

Noun.

[L., fr. Gr.

Πανδώρα

;

πᾶς

πᾶν

, all +

δῶρον

a gift.]

(Class. Myth.)

A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom

Jupiter

caused

Vulcan

to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because

Prometheus

had stolen the fire from heaven.

Jupiter

gave

Pandora

a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.

(Zool.)

A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.

Definition 2024

Pandora

See also: pandora, Pandóra, and Πανδώρα

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Pandora f

A taxonomic genus within the family Entomophthoraceae – certain fungi not placed within a phylum.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Eomycota - subkingdom; Zygomycota - phylum; Entomophthoromycotina - subphylum; Entomophthorales - order; Entomophthoraceae - family

English

Proper noun

Pandora

(Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.
(astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.
(astronomy) Short for 55 Pandora, a main belt asteroid.

Derived terms

Pandora's box

Translations

Character in Greek mythology

Albanian: Pandorë f
Basque: Pandora (eu)
Catalan: Pandora
Czech: Pandóra f
Danish: Pandora
Dutch: Pandora f
Esperanto: Pandoro
Finnish: Pandora (fi)
French: Pandore (fr) f
German: Pandora f
Greek: Πανδώρα (el) f ‎(Pandóra)
Greenlandic: Pandora
Hebrew: פנדורה
Hungarian: Pandóra (hu)
Inuktitut: ᐸᓐᑑᕋ ‎(pantuura)
Italian: Pandora f
Japanese: パンドーラー ‎(Pandōrā)

Korean: 판도라 (ko) ‎(Pandora)
Latin: Pandora f
Lithuanian: Pandora (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Pandora
Marathi: पॅन्डोरा ‎(pǎnḍorā)
Norwegian: Pandora
Polish: Pandora (pl) f
Portuguese: Pandora (pt) f
Romanian: Pandora f
Russian: Пандора (ru) f ‎(Pandora)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Пандо́ра f

Roman: Pandóra (sh) f
Spanish: Pandora f
Swedish: Pandora
Turkish: Pandora

Asteroid

Basque

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Danish

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

(Greek mythology) Pandora

German

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Anagrams

Lithuanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora, the world's first woman

Declension

declension of Pandora

nominative	Pandora
genitive	Pandoros
dative	Pandorai
accusative	Pandorą
instrumental	Pandora
locative	Pandoroje
vocative	Pandora

Derived terms

Pandoros skrynia

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Norwegian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora (woman who released evil into the world)

Derived terms

caixa de Pandora

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [panˈdora]

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pandǒːra/
Hyphenation: Pan‧do‧ra

Proper noun

Pandóra f ‎(Cyrillic spelling Пандо́ра)

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Declension

Declension of Pandora

	singular
nominative	Pandora
genitive	Pandore
dative	Pandori
accusative	Pandoru
vocative	Pandoro / Pandora
locative	Pandori
instrumental	Pandorom

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [panˈdoɾa]

Proper noun

Pandora f

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

(Greek mythology) Pandora

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα ‎(Pandṓra).

Proper noun

Pandora

(Greek mythology) Pandora

pandora

See also: Pandora, Pandóra, and Πανδώρα

English

Noun

pandora ‎(plural pandoras)

Any fish of the genus Pagellus.

Synonyms

porgy

Translations

Pagellus erythrinus

Catalan: pagell (ca) m
Greek: λυθρίνι (el) n ‎(lythríni)

Italian: pagello (it) m