pignus

English

Etymology

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Noun

pignus (plural pignora)

  1. (law, obsolete, Ancient Rome) A pledge or pawn.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pignus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- or *peyḱ-; others refer it to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fasten, fix”); its meaning perhaps being "something pinned/fixed/retained (as pledge)".

Pronunciation

Noun

pignus n (genitive pignoris); third declension

  1. pledge, mortgage
    Synonyms: vōtum, fīdūcia
  2. hostage
  3. wager, stake

Declension

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Albanian: peng
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Italian: pegno
  • Old Occitan: penh
  • Piedmontese: pegn
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pennor
  • Sicilian: pignu
  • Old Spanish: peños; pendra (< *pignora)

References
  • “pignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pignus 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)
  • pignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “pignus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pignus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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