, a medium tank first built in 1937]], a modern main battle tank]] Panzer is a loanword from the German language. The German noun Panzer (plural: Panzer), German pronunciation (), English , means tank in the sense of a heavily armored vehicle. Also, the word can have other words added onto it such as Plattenpanzer (Plate Armor) or Schutzpanzer (protective armour), or armoured forces (today, tank organizations and the tanks themselves) as in Panzerdivision. It is derived from the French pancier ("breastplate", compare English paunch). The word has been calqued in many languages, such as Swedish pansarvagn or Finnish panssarivaunu for any tracked armoured fighting vehicle. The term has been accepted in English as a colloquialism to refer to a main battle tank or other armored vehicle, usually a Second World War German model. The term is usually not used outsid

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