pugna
Appearance
See also: pugná
Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]pugna
- inflection of pugnar:
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin pugna, from pugnō (“to fight, oppose”), from pugnus (“fist”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”).
Noun
[edit]pugna f (plural pugne) (obsolete, literary, poetic)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]pugna (obsolete)
- plural of pugno
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VI, p. 91, vv. 25-27:
- E 'l duca mio distese le sue spanne, ¶ prese la terra, e con piene le pugna, ¶ la gittò dentro a le bramose canne.
- And my Conductor, with his spans extended, ¶ took of the earth, and with his fists well filled, ¶ he threw it into those rapacious gullets.
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]pugna
- inflection of pugnare:
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From pugnō (“to fight”), from pugnus (“a fist”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpuɡ.na/, [ˈpʊŋnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpuɲ.ɲa/, [ˈpuɲːä]
Noun
[edit]pugna f (genitive pugnae); first declension
- a fight, battle, combat, action
- a line of battle, troops drawn up for battle
- a contest, dispute, quarrel
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | pugna | pugnae |
genitive | pugnae | pugnārum |
dative | pugnae | pugnīs |
accusative | pugnam | pugnās |
ablative | pugnā | pugnīs |
vocative | pugna | pugnae |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]pugnā
References
[edit]- “pugna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pugna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pugna 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)
- pugna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to provoke the enemy to battle: proelio (ad pugnam) hostes lacessere, provocare
- to decline battle: pugnam detrectare (Liv. 3. 60)
- to choose suitable ground for an engagement: locum ad pugnam idoneum deligere
- to fix a day for the engagement: diem pugnae constituere (B. G. 3. 24)
- to triumph over some one: triumphum agere de or ex aliquo or c. Gen. (victoriae, pugnae)
- to fight a battle at sea: pugnam navalem facere
- (ambiguous) the issue of the day was for a long time uncertain: diu anceps stetit pugna
- (ambiguous) to come off victorious: superiorem (opp. inferiorem), victorem (proelio, pugna) discedere
- to provoke the enemy to battle: proelio (ad pugnam) hostes lacessere, provocare
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]pugna f (plural pugnas)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]pugna
- inflection of pugnar:
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]pugna f (plural pugnas)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]pugna
- inflection of pugnar:
Further reading
[edit]- “pugna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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