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Latin
Etymology
From pugnāns (“fighting, combating”) + -ia, from pugnō (“fight”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pugnantia n (genitive pugnantiais); third declension
- (mostly plural) contradictions, inconsistencies, things irreconcilable
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
Participle
pugnantia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of pugnāns
References
- “pugnantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pugnantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pugnantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to make contradictory, inconsistent statements: pugnantia loqui (Tusc. 1. 7. 13)