panini

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Definition

noun Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC)

Borrowed from Italian panini, plural of panino (literally “small bread”).

Its alphabetical script is DEVANAGARI, literally “divine abode.” “Who knows my grammar knows God!” Panini, great philologist of ancient India, paid this tribute to the mathematical and psychological perfection in Sanskrit. — Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
Sixty golden ducats to the brothers Antonio and Bernabo Panini, for wine received from them?' The aged men tottered under the stroke of joy; and Bernabo, who would have embraced his brother, fainted. — Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, Walter Savage Landor

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