pugnantia

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Latin

Etymology

From pugnāns (fighting, combating) +‎ -ia, from pugnō (fight).

Pronunciation

Noun

pugnantia n (genitive pugnantiais); third declension

  1. (mostly plural) contradictions, inconsistencies, things irreconcilable

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

plural
nominative pugnantia
genitive pugnantium
dative pugnantibus
accusative pugnantia
ablative pugnantibus
vocative pugnantia

Participle

pugnantia

  1. 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)