pant

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to breathe quickly and heavily, as after exertion

   The dog began to pant in the afternoon heat.

Simplified etymology

Pant, recorded from Middle English in the sense “breathe spasmodically,” came through Old French pantaisier, “be agitated” or “gasp.” It ultimately traces to the same Greek root as fantastic, phainon, “to show.”

From late Middle English panten, probably from Old French pantaisier 'to gasp, pant', from Vulgar Latin phantasiare 'to be oppressed by nightmares', from Greek phantasioun 'to have visions', from phantasia 'imagination'.

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