pugnantia
Latin
Etymology
From pugnāns (“fighting, combating”) + -ia, from pugnō (“fight”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pʊŋˈnan.ti.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [puɲˈɲan.t̪͡s̪i.a]
Noun
pugnantia n (genitive pugnantiais); third declension
- (mostly plural) contradictions, inconsistencies, things irreconcilable
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem), plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | pugnantia |
| genitive | pugnantium |
| dative | pugnantibus |
| accusative | pugnantia |
| ablative | pugnantibus |
| vocative | pugnantia |
Participle
pugnantia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of pugnāns
References
- “pugnantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pugnantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pugnantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to make contradictory, inconsistent statements: pugnantia loqui (Tusc. 1. 7. 13)
- (ambiguous) to make contradictory, inconsistent statements: pugnantia loqui (Tusc. 1. 7. 13)