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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1515.pugna on page 1515
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pugna fight
pugna is a Latin Noun that primarily means fight.
Definitions for pugna
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
fight, battle
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A fight between two or more persons, combat. (b) (beween gladiators, boxers, or sim.). (c) (colloq.) ~am dare or edere, to make trouble, cause mischief.
- 2
A fight between opposing forces, battle, (b) order of battle.
- 3
(transf.) A conflict in words or actions (esp. applied to the activity of the law-courts); also, a struggle against a particular difficulty. (b) an intellectual struggle, debate, controversy. (c) a conflict in a person's emotions, inward struggle. (d) a conflict between two incompatible ideas.
Sentences with pugna
Latin to English
Inde cum orta esset pugna, servī adiuvandī causā ad Milōnem accurrērunt.Compare Then, when an all-out battle had begun, slaves ran toward Milo for the sake of helping out.
Primo anceps sum pugna, nequicquam saepe conatus eques Romanus impetus turbo hostis acies.Compare The battle was at first doubtful, the Roman cavalry having made many fruitless attempts to throw the enemy's line into confusion by a charge.
Declension table for pugna
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | pugna | pugnae |
| Gen. | pugnae | pugnārum |
| Dat. | pugnae | pugnīs |
| Acc. | pugnam | pugnās |
| Abl. | pugnā | pugnīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 485.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1515.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
Bibliography
Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "pugna, pugnae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/pugna-pugnae.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 485.on page 485
