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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
rogus m (genitive rogī); second declension
- funeral pyre, funeral pile
- Synonym: pyra
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.676:
- “Hoc rogus iste mihi, hoc ignēs āraeque parābant?”
- “Was this pyre that for me, this fire, and the altars, they contriving?”
- (figuratively) the grave
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “rogus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rogus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rogus 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)
- rogus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to place on the funeral-pyre: aliquem in rogum imponere
- “rogus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “rogus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 854