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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pugio (plural pugios)
- (historical) A dagger or poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:
- The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476.
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- pugione (rare, archaic)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pugio m (plural pugi)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-, same source as Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpuː.ɡi.oː/, [ˈpuːɡioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.d͡ʒi.o/, [ˈpuːd͡ʒio]
Noun
[edit]pūgiō m (genitive pūgiōnis); third declension
- a dagger
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pūgiō | pūgiōnēs |
Genitive | pūgiōnis | pūgiōnum |
Dative | pūgiōnī | pūgiōnibus |
Accusative | pūgiōnem | pūgiōnēs |
Ablative | pūgiōne | pūgiōnibus |
Vocative | pūgiō | pūgiōnēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: pugio (learned)
- → Italian: pugio, pugione (rare, archaic) (learned)
- → Hebrew: פגיון (pigyón) (learned)
References
[edit]- “pugio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pugio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pugio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pugio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pugio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pugio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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