pugio

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]
Reconstructed Roman pugio.

Etymology

[edit]

From Latin pūgiō.

Noun

[edit]

pugio (plural pugios)

  1. (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]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Latin pūgiō.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.d͡ʒo/
  • Rhymes: -udʒo
  • Hyphenation: pù‧gio

Noun

[edit]

pugio m (plural pugi)

  1. pugio

Latin

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-, same source as Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, fist).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

pūgiō m (genitive pūgiōnis); third declension

  1. a dagger
    • c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 4.29:
      multōs in moenia ēgressōs pūgiōnibus fodere.
      Many, who had struggled on to the walls, with their daggers they stabbed.
    • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 14.33:
      Pūgio, quem curvā signat brevis orbita vēnā,
      strīdentem gelidīs hunc Salo tīnxit aquīs.

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