Note 35 — Part II. THE ITALIAN COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE OR IMPROMPTU COMEDY.
John Addington Symonds translation
I do not vouch for this etymology, which Boerio, the compiler of the Venetian Glossary, has adopted. For myself, I should be well contented with the derivation from San Pantaleone, and would willingly make him the patron saint of pantaloons and professed trousers-makers.