pugnantia

Latin

Etymology

From pugnāns (“fighting, combating”) +‎ -ia, from pugnō (“fight”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /puɡˈnan.ti.a/, [pʊŋˈnän̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /puɲˈɲan.t͡si.a/, [puɲˈɲänt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

pugnantia n (genitive pugnantiais); third declension

1. (mostly plural) contradictions, inconsistencies, things irreconcilable

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	pugnantia
Genitive	pugnantium
Dative	pugnantibus
Accusative	pugnantia
Ablative	pugnantibus
Vocative	pugnantia

Participle

pugnantia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of pugnāns

References

• “pugnantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pugnantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pugnantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to make contradictory, inconsistent statements: pugnantia loqui (Tusc. 1. 7. 13)