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Latin
Etymology
From prōpugnō (“I defend”) + -culum.
Noun
prōpugnāculum n (genitive prōpugnāculī); second declension
- bulwark, rampart, fortress
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.87-88:
- portūsve aut prōpugnācula bellō / tūta parant .
- Nor do they prepare ports or ramparts for defense in war. .
- defence
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “propugnaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “propugnaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- propugnaculum 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)
- propugnaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “propugnaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers