pagus

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-der.

Proto-Italic *pāgos

Latin pāgusbor.

English pagus

Borrowed from Latin pāgus.

Noun

pagus (plural pagi)

1. (historical) A country district with scattered hamlets.
2. (historical) The fortified centre of such a district.
3. (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/

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• Rhymes: -aɡus
• Syllabification: pa‧gus

Verb

pagus

1. 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

1. district, canton, region
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 6.11:

     in omnibus cīvitātibus atque in omnibus pāgīs partibusque

     in every state and every canton and district

2. countryside (rural area outside of a city)

   Synonym: agrī

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.669
3. countryfolk, rural community
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.669
4. clan
5. (Medieval Latin) village
6. (Medieval Latin) country, territory
   • 1017, Thietmar, Chronicle 8:

     Posita est autem haec in pago Silensi

     This town is located in the Silesian country.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pāgus	pāgī
genitive	pāgī	pāgōrum
dative	pāgō	pāgīs
accusative	pāgum	pāgōs
ablative	pāgō	pāgīs
vocative	pāge	pāgī

Derived terms

• pāgānus
  • pāgānicus
  • pāgānismus
  • pāgānitās
• pāgātim
• pāgēnsis

Related terms

• paciscor
• pāgina
• pālus
• pāngō
• pāx
• pignus
• pīla

Descendants

• → English: pagus (learned)
• → Italian: pago (learned)
• → Spanish: pago (learned)
  • → Portuguese: pago (dialectal)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *pọɣ
  • Old Breton: pou
  • Old Cornish: pou
    • Middle Cornish: pow
      • Cornish: pow
  • Middle Welsh: peu
    • Welsh: pau

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