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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
For Proto-Italic *jugos, from Proto-Indo-European *yugós (“yoked”), from *yewg- (“to join, to yoke, to harness”) + *-ós (adjectival suffix). Contrast iugum, a nominal formation, and iūgis, likely unrelated. For the divine epithet, cf. Ancient Greek Ἥρα ζυγία (Hḗra zugía).
Pronunciation
Adjective
iugus (feminine iuga, neuter iugum); first/second-declension adjective
- (rare) combined together, in all
234 BCE – 149 BCE,
Cato the Elder,
On Agriculture 10.2:
- vāsa oleāria īnstrūcta iuga V
- oil-pressing vessels, 5 in all
- (hapax) nuptial (as a divine epithet of Juno)
- Synonyms: prōnuba, iugālis
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
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References
- “iugus” on page 1078 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN