iugum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === jugum (post-classical) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈjʊ.ɡũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈjuː.ɡum] === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Italic *jugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm, from *yewg- (“to yoke, harness, join”) + *-óm. Cognate with Sanskrit युग (yuga), Ancient Greek ζῠγόν (zŭgón), and Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌺 (juk). Equivalent to a substantivization of the adjective iugus (“belonging together”). ==== Noun ==== iugum n (genitive iugī); second declension (literal) a yoke (for oxen or cattle) or collar (for a horse) (transferred sense) a yoke, pair, team of draft oxen; a pair of horses; a chariot a pair of anything a juger of land Synonym: iūgerum in Kent, a yoke of land, quarter sulung (architecture) a horizontal beam or rail fastened perpendicular to a post or pole; a crossbeam, crossrail any of various types of horizontal structural member: the beam which united the upright posts of a loom, the crossbar of a lyre, the crossrail of a trellis, the thwart or cross-bench of a boat (the rower's bench) a symbolic yoke of subjugation: a low makeshift archway of three spears under which a vanquished enemy was made to bend in humiliation as they passed by a scalebeam; (metonymic) a pair of scales; (astronomy) the Libra Synonyms: bilanx, lībra, statēra, trutina the summit or ridge of a mountain; a chain or range of mountains (figuratively) the bond (of slavery, matrimony, etc.) ===== Inflection ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ==== See also ==== versus (land measure) ==== References ==== “iugum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “iugum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "iugum", 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) “iugum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “iugum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Adjective ==== iugum inflection of iugus: accusative masculine singular nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular