different between terms vs pugil

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pugillus, pugillum (“a fistful”), akin to pugnus (“the fist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pju?d??l/

Noun

pugil (plural pugils)

1. (obsolete) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers; a pinch.

   • Take violets , and infuse a good pugil of them in a quart of vinegar

   • 1778, William Lewis, The new dispensatory:

     Cinnamon, an ounce and a half; Rosemary flowers, six pugils […]

   • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets:

     Note, That by Parts is to be understood a Pugil; which is no more than one does usually take up between the Thumb and the two next Fingers.

   • 1989, Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen-Gun Salute:

     This kind of success was all luck, and if a man had only a given amount for his own share, it was a shame to fritter away so much as a pugil.

See also

• pugil stick

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pew?- and related to Latin pugnus (“fist”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pu.?il/, [?p?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pu.d??il/, [?pu?d??il]

Noun

pugil m (genitive pugilis); third declension

1. a boxer, pugilist
2. (figuratively) a hardened forehead

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• pugilic?

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: púgil
• English: pugilism, pugilist
• Italian: pugile
• Portuguese: púgil
• Spanish: púgil

References

• pugil in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pugil in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pugil in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pugil in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pugil in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers