pignus

English

Etymology

Noun

pignus (plural pignora)

(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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

gins up, pungis, sign up, signup, sing up, spuing

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- or *peyḱ-.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiɡ.nus/, [ˈpɪŋ.nʊs]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ɲus/, [ˈpiɲ.ɲus]

Noun

pignus n (genitive pignoris); third declension

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pignus	pignora
Genitive	pignoris	pignorum
Dative	pignorī	pignoribus
Accusative	pignus	pignora
Ablative	pignore	pignoribus
Vocative	pignus	pignora

Derived terms

pignerō

Descendants

Albanian: peng
Italian: pegno
Portuguese: penhor
Spanish: peño, prenda

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, 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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