Pugio vs Pugil - What's the difference?
pugio | pugil |
a dagger, poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans.
*1786 — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 34.
(obsolete) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers.
* 1778 , William Lewis, The new dispensatory
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.pugio
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Noun
(en noun)- The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476.
pugil
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Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Cinnamon, an ounce and a half; Rosemary flowers, six pugils