pagus
English
Etymology
Latin pāgus
Noun
pagus (plural pagi)
- (historical) A country district with scattered hamlets.
- (historical) The fortified centre of such a district.
- (historical) Among the early Teutons, a division of the territory larger than a village, like a wapentake or hundred.
Anagrams
- GPUSA, Pugas, gas up, gaups, spaug
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Verb
pagus
- conditional of pagi
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Perhaps "a space with fixed boundaries". See related terms. Compare the meaning, "region", of fīnis again perhaps of a root meaning "to fix".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaː.ɡus/, [ˈpäːɡʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ɡus/, [ˈpäːɡus]
Noun
pāgus m (genitive pāgī); second declension
- district, province, region, canton
- area outside of a city, countryside; rural community
- country or rural people
- clan
- (Medieval Latin) village
- (Medieval Latin) territory
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pāgus | pāgī |
| Genitive | pāgī | pāgōrum |
| Dative | pāgō | pāgīs |
| Accusative | pāgum | pāgōs |
| Ablative | pāgō | pāgīs |
| Vocative | pāge | pāgī |
Derived terms
- pāgānus
- pāgānicus
- pāgānismus
- pāgānitās
- pāgātim
- pāgēnsis
Related terms
- paciscor
- pāgina
- pālus
- pāngō
- pāx
- pignus
- pīla
Descendants
- → Italian: pago (learned)
- Portuguese: pago (dialectal, via Spanish)
- Spanish: pago
- Welsh: pau
References
- “pagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pagus 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)
- pagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “pagus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “pagus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pagus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “pagus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “pagus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin