pancratium

Latin pancratium, from Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “a complete contest”). See pankration.

pancratium (plural pancratiums)

1. (historical) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
2. (botany) 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.

From Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “all powers; exercise which combines both wrestling and boxing”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /panˈkra.ti.um/

pancratium n (genitive pancratiī); second declension

1. A gymnastic contest, which is a blend of wrestling and boxing, pankration.
2. chicory

Second declension.

• (gymnastic contest, which is a blend of wrestling and boxing): pammachum

• pancratiās
• pancratiastēs
• pancraticē
• pancratius

• English: pancratium
• French: pancrace

• paradoxus

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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