pagus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin pāgus. === Noun === pagus (plural pagi) (historical) A country district with scattered hamlets. (historical) The fortified centre of such a district. (historical) Among the early Teutons, a division of the territory larger than a village, like a wapentake or hundred. === Anagrams === GPUSA, Pugas, gas up, gaups, spaug == Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpaɡus/ Rhymes: -aɡus Syllabification: pa‧gus === Verb === pagus conditional of pagi == Latin == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Italic *pāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Perhaps "a space with fixed boundaries". See related terms. Compare the meaning, "region", of fīnis again perhaps of a root meaning "to fix". === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.ɡʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.ɡus] === Noun === pāgus m (genitive pāgī); second declension district, canton, region countryside (rural area outside of a city) Synonym: agrī countryfolk, rural community clan (Medieval Latin) village (Medieval Latin) country, territory ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “pagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "pagus", 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) “pagus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “pagus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1] “pagus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers pagus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “pagus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “pagus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin