drungus

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold, hold fast, support”).[1] Cognate with English dright and Lithuanian draũgas.

Noun[edit]

drungus m (genitive drungī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin) A troop

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative drungus drungī
Genitive drungī drungōrum
Dative drungō drungīs
Accusative drungum drungōs
Ablative drungō drungīs
Vocative drunge drungī

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • → Byzantine Greek: δροῦγγος (droûngos), δρόγγος (dróngos)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • “drungus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • drungus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “drungus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 376
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