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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɲ.ɲus/, [ˈpuɲːus]

Noun

pugnus m (genitive pugnī); second declension

1. a fist; a hand with all fingers curled up
2. 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)
• Lombard: pugn
• 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.