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-pagus

/pəɡəs/

-pagus suffix: conjoined twins.

Suffix

-pagus

  1. conjoined twins
    • ischiopagus, xiphopagus, craniopagus

Origin of -pagus

From Ancient Greek πάγος (págos, “fixed, set”), from πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “fasten, fix, set”).

Questions about -pagus

What does -pagus mean?
-pagus means conjoined twins.
What part of speech is -pagus?
-pagus is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -pagus?
-pagus is pronounced /pəɡəs/.

Words near -pagus in the dictionary

  1. -oxetine
  2. -oxifene
  3. -oxy
  4. -oyl
  5. -p
  6. -pagus
  7. -palooza
  8. -pamil
  9. -pants
  10. -parin
  11. -parinux

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -pagus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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