rogus

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See also: Rogus and Roguś

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *rogos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rogus m (genitive rogī); second declension

  1. funeral pyre, funeral pile
    Synonym: pyra
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.676:
      “Hoc rogus iste mihi, hoc ignēs āraeque parābant?”
      “Was this pyre [to mean] that for me, this fire, and the altars, they [were all] contriving?”
  2. (figuratively) the grave

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rogus rogī
Genitive rogī rogōrum
Dative rogō rogīs
Accusative rogum rogōs
Ablative rogō rogīs
Vocative roge rogī

Descendants

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  • Aromanian: rug
  • Italian: rogo
  • Romanian: rug

References

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  • rogus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rogus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rogus 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)
  • rogus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to place on the funeral-pyre: aliquem in rogum imponere
  • rogus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rogus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 854