pugno

pugno

1. first-person singular present indicative of pugnar

Borrowed from Italian pugno, from Latin pugnus (“fist; handful”). Compare French poing. Related to pojno. Doublet of ponardo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɡno/

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• Rhymes: -uɡno
• Syllabification: pug‧no

pugno (accusative singular pugnon, plural pugnoj, accusative plural pugnojn)

1. fist

   Li kolerplene svingis al mi sian pugnon. "Nun min batalu!" li kriis.

   He angrily swung his fist at me. "Fight me already!" he cried.

• “pugno”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “pugno”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Borrowed from French poing, Italian pùgno, Spanish puño and Portuguese punho; all from Latin pugnus, pugnī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɡ.no/
• Rhymes: -uɡno
• Hyphenation: pug‧no

pugno (plural pugnos)

2. fist (a hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɲ.ɲo/
• Rhymes: -uɲɲo
• Hyphenation: pù‧gno

From Latin pugnus, from Proto-Italic *pugnos, from Proto-Indo-European *puǵnos, from *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”).

pugno m (plural pugni or (archaic or literary) pugna f)

1. fist
2. punch
3. fistful, handful
4. (figurative, by extension) small quantity; handful
   • 2020 September 24, Massimo Basile, “Biden sì, ma non troppo: nel Minnesota di Floyd nessun voto è scontato [Biden yes, but not too much: in Floyd's Minnesota no vote is taken for granted]”, in la Repubblica‎^[1]:

     In realtà da decenni qui i repubblicani perdono per un pugno di voti.

     In reality, for decades Repubblicans have been losing by a handful of votes.

• → Greek: μπουνιά f (bouniá)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pugno

1. first-person singular present indicative of pugnare

• pungo

From pugnus (“fist”) + -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊŋ.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuɲ.ɲo]

pugnō m

1. dative/ablative singular of pugnus

pugnō (present infinitive pugnāre, perfect active pugnāvī, supine pugnātum); first conjugation

1. to fight, combat, battle, engage

   Synonyms: lūctor, repugnō, contendō, dēcernō, committō, concurrō, certō, bellō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, serō, dēcertō

2. to contend, conflict, oppose, contradict
3. to endeavour, struggle, strive

   Synonyms: lūctor, ēlabōrō, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, appetō, temptō, affectō, tendō, quaerō, studeō, contendō, adnītor, labōrō, īnsequor, molior, perīclitor, nītor, ēnītor, spectō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• Asturian: puñar
• Catalan: punyar
• Franco-Provençal: pugnier
• Old French: puignier
  • French: pugner
• Galician: puñar, pugnar
• Italian: pugnare
• Occitan: punhar
• Spanish: puñar, pugnar
• Sardinian: punnare

• pungō

• “pugno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pugno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pugno", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pugno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be mutually contradictory: inter se pugnare or repugnare
    
  • to contradict oneself, be inconsistent: secum pugnare (without sibi); sibi repugnare (of things)
    
  • to fight for hearth and home: pro aris et focis pugnare, certare, dimicare
    
  • to fight on horseback: ex equo pugnare
    
  • the issue of the battle is undecided: ancipiti Marte pugnatur
    
  • to fight hand-to-hand, at close quarters: collatis signis (viribus) pugnare
    
  • to fight in open order: laxatis (opp. confertis) ordinibus pugnare
    
  • to fight like lions: ferarum ritu pugnare
    
  • to fight in skirmishing order: rari dispersique pugnare (B. C. 1. 44)
    
  • (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
    

pugno

1. first-person singular present indicative of pugnar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɡno/ [ˈpuɣ̞.no]
• Rhymes: -uɡno
• Syllabification: pug‧no

pugno

1. first-person singular present indicative of pugnar