Editing Leopard (section)

==Etymology==
The English name "leopard" comes from [[Old French]] {{lang|fro|leupart}} or [[Middle French]] {{lang|frm|liepart}}, that derives from [[Latin]] {{lang|la|leopardus}} and [[ancient Greek]] {{lang|grc|λέοπάρδος}} ({{Transliteration|grc|leopardos}}). {{Transliteration|grc|Leopardos}} could be a [[Compound (linguistics)|compound]] of {{lang|grc|λέων}} ({{Transliteration|grc|leōn}}), meaning {{gloss|lion}}, and {{lang|grc|πάρδος}} ({{Transliteration|grc|pardos}}), meaning {{gloss|spotted}}.<ref name=lewis>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=C. T. |author1-link=Charlton Thomas Lewis |last2=Short |first2=C. |name-list-style=amp |year=1879 |title=A Latin Dictionary |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |chapter=lěǒpardus |page=1069 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61236/page/n1069}}</ref><ref name=liddell>{{cite book |last1=Liddell |first1=H. G. |author1-link=Henry Liddell |last2=Scott |first2=R. |author2-link=Robert Scott (philologist) |name-list-style=amp |year=1889 |title=A Greek–English Lexicon |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |chapter=λέο-πάρδος |page=884 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/greekenglishlex00liddrich/page/884}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Partridge |first=E. |author-link=Eric Partridge |title=Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English |publisher=Greenwich House |year=1983 |location=New York |isbn=978-0-517-41425-5 |page=349 |url=https://archive.org/details/originsshortetym0000part/page/349}}</ref> The word {{lang|drc|λέοπάρδος}} originally referred to a [[cheetah]] (''Acinonyx jubatus'').<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nicholas |first=N. |s2cid=56160515 |year=1999|title=A conundrum of cats: pards and their relatives in Byzantium |journal=[[Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies]] |volume=40 |pages=253–298}}</ref>

"Panther" is another common name, derived from Latin {{lang|la|panther}} and ancient Greek {{lang|grc|πάνθηρ}} ({{Transliteration|grc|pánthēr}});<ref name=lewis/> The [[Generic name (biology)|generic name]] ''Panthera'' originates in Latin {{lang|la|panthera}}, a hunting net for catching wild beasts to be used by the [[Roman people|Roman]]s in combats.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=C. T. |last2=Short |first2=C. |name-list-style=amp |year=1879 |title=A Latin Dictionary |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |chapter=panthera |page=1298 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61236/page/n1317}}</ref> {{lang|la|Pardus}} is the [[Grammatical gender|masculine singular]] form.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=C. T. |last2=Short |first2=C. |name-list-style=amp |year=1879 |title=A Latin Dictionary |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |chapter=''pardus'' |pages=1302 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61236/page/n1321}}</ref>