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pugio

pugio noun: a dagger or poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans.

pugio: a dagger or poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans
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Noun

pugio (plural pugios)

  1. (historical) A dagger or poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans.
    • The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476.1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34

Forms of pugio

pluralpugios

Origin of pugio

Borrowed from Latin pūgiō.

Questions about pugio

What does pugio mean?
Pugio means a dagger or poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans.
What part of speech is pugio?
Pugio is a noun.
What is the plural of pugio?
The plural of pugio is pugios.

Words near pugio in the dictionary

  1. pugillaris
  2. pugils
  3. Pugin
  4. Puginesque
  5. Pugins
  6. pugio
  7. pugioniform
  8. pugios
  9. Puglia
  10. Puglian
  11. puglianite

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