The actual meaning of the name means all compassionate and not all lion.
― Anonymous User 2/2/2018
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This name reminds me of the French word "pantalon", which means trousers...
― Anonymous User 1/16/2013
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This name reminds me too much of the Spanish word "pantalones" (which means pants) and the English word "pantaloon" (which means pants or an aging, senile person).
From the 3rd ed. of the American Heritage Dictionary: Saint Pantaleon was so closely associated with Venice that the Venetians were nicknamed Pantaloni by other Italians. In plays, the stereotypical Venetian merchant was called Pantalone. The French identified Pantalone with a particular style of trousers, which was transferred to English as pantaloons. Pantaloons later referred to trousers in general, and in the 19th century was shortened to a vulgar 'pants.'
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%82#Ancient_Greek (in English)
πᾶν (pan) is only the neuter singular of the latter:
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%E1%BE%B6%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek (in English)
Also see:
- the entry for Pantaleon at Pavlos' Etymologica: http://web.archive.org/web/20120325073651/http://www.etymologica.com/page21.htm (in English)
- πᾶς (pas) meaning "all, every, each":
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pa%3Ds&la=greek&can=pa%3Ds (in English)
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%E1%BE%B6%CF%82#Ancient_Greek (in English)
• https://lsj.gr/wiki/%CF%80%E1%BE%B6%CF%82 (in English)
This comment also applies to the entry for Panteleimon in the main database, which contains the same mistake.