pugnus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pugnos, from Proto-Indo-European *puǵnos, *puḱnos, from *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”). Near cognates include Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist”). Related to pungō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpuɡ.nus/, [ˈpʊŋnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpuɲ.ɲus/, [ˈpuɲːus]
Noun
pugnus m (genitive pugnī); second declension
- a fist; a hand with all fingers curled up
- a fistful, handful
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pugnus | pugnī |
| Genitive | pugnī | pugnōrum |
| Dative | pugnō | pugnīs |
| Accusative | pugnum | pugnōs |
| Ablative | pugnō | pugnīs |
| Vocative | pugne | pugnī |
Derived terms
- pugneus
- pugnitus
- pugnō
Related terms
- pugil
- pugiō
- pugna
- pugnācitās
- pugnāciter
- pugnāculum
- pugnantia
- pugnātor
- pugnātōrius
- pugnātrīx
- pugnāx
- pungō
Descendants
- Aromanian: pulmu
- Asturian: puñu
- Catalan: puny
- Corsican: pugnu
- Emilian: pùgn
- Esperanto: pugno
- French: poing
- Friulian: pugn
- Galician: puño
- Ido: pugno
- Istriot: poûgno
- Italian: pugno
- Greek: μπουνιά f (bouniá)
- Neapolitan: punio
- Occitan: ponh, punh
- Portuguese: punho
- Romanian: pumn
- Romansch: pugn, puogn
- Sardinian: punzu, prunzu, pungiu, puniu
- Sicilian: pugnu
- Spanish: puño
- Venetian: pugno
- Walloon: pougn
References
- “pugnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pugnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pugnus 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)
- pugnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1275c