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Latin
Etymology
From dē- (“lacking”) + pūga (“buttock”) + -is (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dēpūgis (neuter dēpūge); third-declension two-termination adjective
- thin-buttocked
65 BCE – 8 BCE,
Horace,
Saturae 1.2.93:
- dēpūgis, nāsūta, brevī latere ac pede longō est
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
References
- depugis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “depugis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press