ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- Pangaea
- "supercontinent of the late Paleozoic era," 1924, from Gk. pan- "all" (see pan-) + gaia "earth" (see gaia). First attested in German, 1920, in Alfred Wegener's "Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane" (not found in 1914 first edition, according to OED).
- pan-
- prefix meaning "all, every, whole, all-inclusive," from Gk. pan-, combining form of pas (neut. pan, masculine and neuter genitive pantos) "all," from PIE *pant- "all" (with derivatives found only in Greek and Tocharian). Commonly used as a prefix in Greek, in modern times often with nationality names, the first example of which seems to have been Panslavism (1846). Also panislamic (1881), pan-American (1889), pan-German (1892), pan-African (1900), pan-European (1901), pan-Arabism (1930).
- Earth as a goddess, from Gk. Gaia,
spouse of Uranus, mother of the Titans, personification of gaia
"earth," as opposed to heaven, "land," as
opposed to sea, "a land, country, soil," a collateral
form of ge (Dorian ga) "earth," of unknown origin,
perhaps pre-Indo-European. The Roman equivalent goddess of the
earth was Tellus (see tellurian),
sometimes used in English poetically or rhetorically for "Earth
personified" or "the Earth as a planet."
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