pagus
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NounEdit
pagus (plural pagi)
- (historical) A country district with scattered hamlets.
- (historical) The fortified centre of such a district.
- (historical) Among the early Teutons, a division of the territory larger than a village, like a wapentake or hundred.
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pagus
- conditional of pagi
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Perhaps "a space with fixed boundaries". See related terms.
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NounEdit
pāgus m (genitive pāgī); second declension
- district, province, region, canton
- area outside of a city, countryside; rural community
- country or rural people
- clan
- (Medieval Latin) village
- (Medieval Latin) territory
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pāgus | pāgī |
Genitive | pāgī | pāgōrum |
Dative | pāgō | pāgīs |
Accusative | pāgum | pāgōs |
Ablative | pāgō | pāgīs |
Vocative | pāge | pāgī |
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ReferencesEdit
- “pagus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “pagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pagus 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)
- pagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- “pagus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “pagus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pagus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “pagus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “pagus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin