pugil
See also: púgil
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pugillus, pugillum (“a fistful”), akin to pugnus (“the fist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpjuːd͡ʒɪl/
Noun
pugil (plural pugils)
- (obsolete) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers; a pinch.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “1. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
- Take violets , and infuse a good pugil of them in a quart of vinegar
- 1778, William Lewis, The new dispensatory:
- Cinnamon, an ounce and a half; Rosemary flowers, six pugils […]
- 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets:
- Note, That by Parts is to be understood a Pugil; which is no more than one does usually take up between the Thumb and the two next Fingers.
- 1989, Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen-Gun Salute:
- This kind of success was all luck, and if a man had only a given amount for his own share, it was a shame to fritter away so much as a pugil.
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See also
- pugil stick
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pugil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- and related to Latin pugnus (“fist”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.ɡil/, [ˈpʊɡɪɫ̪]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.d͡ʒil/, [ˈpuːd͡ʒil]
Noun
pugil m (genitive pugilis); third declension
- a boxer, pugilist
- (figuratively) a hardened forehead
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pugil | pugilēs |
| Genitive | pugilis | pugilum |
| Dative | pugilī | pugilibus |
| Accusative | pugilem | pugilēs |
| Ablative | pugile pugilī | pugilibus |
| Vocative | pugil | pugilēs |
Derived terms
- pugilicē
Related terms
- pugilārēs, pugillārēs
- pugilātiō, pugillātiō
- pugilātor, pugillātor
- pugilātōrius, pugillātōrius
- pugilātus, pugillātus
- pugilis
- pugillar
- pugillāria
- pugillāriārius
- pugillaris
- pugillātōrius
- pugillus
- pugilor, pugillor
Descendants
- Catalan: púgil
- English: pugilism, pugilist
- Italian: pugile
- Portuguese: púgil
- Spanish: púgil
References
- “pugil”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pugil”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pugil 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)
- pugil in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “pugil”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers