pancratium

See also: Pancratium

English

Etymology

Latin , from Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion) a complete contest, from all-powerful; all + strength. See pankration.

Noun

pancratium (plural pancratiums)

  1. (historical) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
  2. (botany) Any of the genus Pancratium of African and Eurasian perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family. The flowers are large, white and fragrant.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “all powers; exercise which combines both wrestling and boxing”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pancratium n (genitive pancratiī); second declension

  1. A gymnastic contest, which is a blend of wrestling and boxing, pankration.
  2. chicory

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pancratium pancratia
genitive pancratiī pancratiōrum
dative pancratiō pancratiīs
accusative pancratium pancratia
ablative pancratiō pancratiīs
vocative pancratium pancratia

Synonyms

  • (gymnastic contest, which is a blend of wrestling and boxing): pammachum

Descendants

See also

References

  • pancratium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pancratium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pancratium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • pancratium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • pancratium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pancratium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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