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English
Etymology
From Latin pancratium, from Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “a complete contest”). See pankration.
Noun
pancratium (plural pancratiums)
- (Ancient Greece) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
- 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.
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “all powers; exercise which combines both wrestling and boxing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pancratium n (genitive pancratiī or pancratī); second declension
- A gymnastic contest, which is a blend of wrestling and boxing, pankration.
- chicory
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
- (gymnastic contest, which is a blend of wrestling and boxing): pammachum
Descendants
See also
References
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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