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Pugio vs Pugil - What's the difference?

pugio | pugil |


As nouns the difference between pugio and pugil

is that pugio is a dagger, poignard, especially the kind used by the ancient romans while pugil is (obsolete) as much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers.