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Latin
Etymology
From pugil (“fighter, pugilist”) + -ice (adverbially rebracketed form of -icus, pertaining to).
Pronunciation
Adverb
pugilicē (not comparable)
- like a boxer; vigorously, stoutly
References
- “pugilice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “pugilice”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.