pugnus

From Proto-Italic *pugnos, from Proto-Indo-European *puǵnos, *puḱnos, from *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”). Near cognates include Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist”). Related to pungō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɡ.nus/, [ˈpʊŋnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɲ.ɲus/, [ˈpuɲːus]

pugnus m (genitive pugnī); second declension

1. a fist; a hand with all fingers curled up
2. a fistful, handful

Second-declension noun.

• pugneus
• pugnitus
• pugnō

• “pugnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pugnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pugnus 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)
• pugnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1275c.