pan

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A flat, round metal container with a handle, used for cooking.

   She fried the eggs in a hot pan.

2. 2
   verb

   To move a camera slowly across a scene to follow or show something.

   The camera panned across the crowd at the stadium.

3. 3
   verb

   To criticize something very harshly.

   The critics panned the new film.

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Simplified etymology

Pan, in the cooking sense, is a common West Germanic word that may have been borrowed early from Latin patina, “dish.” The phrase pan out arose in the mid-19th century from washing river sand in a shallow pan to recover gold.

Etymology tree Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor. Latin patina Late Latin pannabor. Proto-Germanic *pannǭ Proto-West Germanic *pannā Old English panne Middle English panne English pan From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ. Further origin uncertain. Alois Walde firstly suggests that it might be from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek. But the sound shifting from /patina/ → /patna/…

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