pancratium

See also: Pancratium

English

Etymology

From Latin pancratium, from Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “a complete contest”). See pankration.

Noun

pancratium (plural pancratiums)

1. (Ancient Greece) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
2. 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.

Derived terms

• pancratiast

 

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “all powers; exercise which combines both wrestling and boxing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /panˈkra.ti.um/, [päŋˈkrät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /panˈkrat.t͡si.um/, [päŋˈkrät̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

pancratium n (genitive pancratiī or pancratī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pancratium	pancratia
genitive	pancratiī pancratī1	pancratiōrum
dative	pancratiō	pancratiīs
accusative	pancratium	pancratia
ablative	pancratiō	pancratiīs
vocative	pancratium	pancratia

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

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• pancratiās
• pancratiastēs
• pancraticē
• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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