Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps alteration (with ending remodelled after -ade suffix) of Middle French panart, pannart type of two-edged sword or large knife (although this is apparently first attested later: late 14th–early 15th cent.; also as penart, pennart) < Middle French panne , penne pen n.³ + -art -ard suffix; compare post-classical Latin penardus a kind of sword or dagger (1335 in a French source), Old Occitan penart two-edged knife (14th cent.). Compare also post-classical Latin pennatus a kind of sword (in an undated Italian source in Du Cange), post-classical Latin penatus pruning knife, bill-hook (1252 in an Italian source), Italian pennato pruning knife, bill-hook (a1342–15; also in 14th cent. as pennata), and classical Latin bipennis a two-edged axe.With the form panado compare -ado suffix.

Etymology: < Middle French, French panade dish of bread boiled in water (1548), probably < Occitan panada (although this is apparently first attested later in the relevant sense: 19th cent. or earlier in sense ‘bread soup’, c1200 in Old Occitan in sense ‘tart’: compare Catalan panada tart (1260)) < pan bread (c1070; < classical Latin pānis : see pain n.²) + -ada -ade suffix. Compare panada n.