different between boxing vs pancratium

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?ks??/
• (General American) enPR: bäks??ng, IPA^(key): /?b??ks??/
• Rhymes: -?ks??
• Hyphenation: box?ing

Etymology 1

From box (“to punch”) +? -ing.

Verb

boxing

1. present participle of box

Noun

boxing (uncountable)

1. (sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists, the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

Synonyms

• (sports): fisticuffs, pugilism, sparring

Hyponyms

• kickboxing
• shadowboxing

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• boxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• boxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From box +? -ing.

Noun

boxing (plural boxings)

1. Material used for making boxes or casing.
2. (construction) Casing.
3. (object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

Antonyms

• (programming): unboxing

Hyponyms

• autoboxing

Translations

Verb

boxing

1. present participle of box

English

Etymology

From Latin pancratium, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pankrátion, “a complete contest”). 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 ?????????? (pankrátion, “all powers; exercise which combines both wrestling and boxing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pan?kra.ti.um/, [pä??k?ät?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pan?kra.t?si.um/, [p???k???t??s?ium]

Noun

pancratium n (genitive pancrati? or pancrat?); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• pancrati?s
• pancratiast?s
• pancratic?
• pancratius

Descendants

• English: pancratium
• French: pancrace

See also

• paradoxus

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