Etymology — The origins of English words

From Ancient Greek πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “thing”).

From patron + -less. Piecewise doublet of patternless.

Borrowed from Russian папиро́са (papirósa), from Polish papieros (“cigarette”), from papier (“paper”) with the ending added from Spanish cigarros and the stem being from German Papier, from Late Middle High German papier, from Latin papȳrus, papȳrum, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros, “papyrus”), supposedly of Egyptian origin.

From patho- + -genic.

The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat. The verb is derived from the noun.

From Ancient Greek πόσθη (pósthē, “prepuce”) + -tomy.

From periscopic + -ally.

From French piquet.

Borrowed from French planche (“board”). Doublet of phalange, phalanx, planch, plancha, and plank.

Variant of Perrin.

From Latin palea (“chaff”) + -aceous.

From pecuniary + -ly.

From pink + -o, a variation of red (“Communist”, noun), as pink is a lighter, more diluted form.

From Latin papȳrāceus (“made of papyrus”) under influence of Middle French papyracee and French papiracé.

Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”). See also parvenue f

Middle English, from Latin pestilens, from Latin pestis.

From Middle English parles, parlous, perlous, [and other forms], a contraction of perilous (“dangerous; dreadful, terrible; morally corrupt, sinful, wicked; inauspicious, unlucky”) (and thus a doublet of perilous), from Old French perilleus, perillos, perillous, perilluse, perilleuse, perilleux (“very dangerous, perilous”) (modern French périlleux), from Latin perīculōsus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”), from perīculum (“danger, hazard, peril, risk”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, carry forth, try”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives).

Ultimately from Ancient Greek φαλαγγίτης (phalangítēs), equivalent to phalanx + -ite.

Clipping of passion.

Perhaps from pen (“an enclosure”) + stock.

From Middle French perspicacité (whence -acity) or directly from Latin perspicācitās (“sharpsightedness, discrimination”), from perspicāx (“sharp-sighted”), from perspicio, from per- + specio, "see through (something)".

From Spanish picarón, from pícaro (“rogue”).

From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek πανηγυρικός (panēgurikós).

From Middle English perpetrat (“committed, perpetrated”), from Latin perpetrātus, past participle of perpetrāre (“to carry through”).