panis

• Language: Latin
• Romanized: panis
• Original script: panis
• Gloss: bread

The basic Latin word for bread. It is the noun the Vulgate carries forward from leḥem and artos, and the noun the Western liturgical tradition would say more often than any other food name.

Related entries

• Lehem — Hebrew equivalent
• Artos — Greek equivalent
• Baculum Panis — staff of bread (Vulgate)
• Quotidianum — daily (Jerome’s Luke)
• Supersubstantialem — supersubstantial (Jerome’s Matthew)