pancratium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin pancratium, from Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “a complete contest”). Doublet of pankration. === Noun === pancratium (countable and uncountable, plural pancratiums) (Ancient Greece, uncountable) Synonym of pankration. Any of the genus Pancratium of African and Eurasian perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family. The flowers are large, white and fragrant. ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === pancration === Etymology === From Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “all powers; exercise which combines both wrestling and boxing”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [paŋˈkra.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [paŋˈkrat.t͡si.um] === Noun === pancratium n (genitive pancratiī or pancratī); second declension pankration (a gymnastic contest, which is a blend of wrestling and boxing) Synonym: pammachum chicory ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== pancratiās pancratiastēs pancraticē pancratius ==== Descendants ==== → English: pancratium → French: pancrace ==== See also ==== paradoxus === References === “pancratium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pancratium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "pancratium", 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) “pancratium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “pancratium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “pancratium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin