pugil
See also: púgil
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pugillus, pugillum (“a handful”), akin to pugnus (“the fist”).
Noun
pugil (plural pugils)
- (obsolete) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers; a pinch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- 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.
See also
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- and related to Latin pugnus (“fist”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpu.ɡil/, [ˈpʊɡɪɫ̪]
- (modern Italianate 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
Related terms
Descendants
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
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