different between pusil vs pugil

English

Etymology

Latin pusillus (“very little”).

Adjective

pusil (comparative more pusil, superlative most pusil)

1. (obsolete) Very small; little; petty.

   • a pusil and a thin soft air

Related terms

• pusillanimous

Anagrams

• Pulis, pilus, pulis

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fusil (“rifle”), from French fusil (“rifle, gun”), from Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *foc?lis (petra), from Latin focus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu?sil

Noun

pusil

1. gun; firearm

Verb

pusil

1. to shoot using a gun or any firearm

Descendants

• ? Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pusil.

Anagrams

• pulis

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu?sil
• IPA^(key): /pu?sil/

Noun

pusíl

1. gun; firearm

Western Bukidnon Manobo

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano pusil, from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).

Noun

pusil

1. gun

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pugillus, pugillum (“a fistful”), akin to pugnus (“the fist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pju?d??l/

Noun

pugil (plural pugils)

1. (obsolete) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers; a pinch.

   • Take violets , and infuse a good pugil of them in a quart of vinegar

   • 1778, William Lewis, The new dispensatory:

     Cinnamon, an ounce and a half; Rosemary flowers, six pugils […]

   • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets:

     Note, That by Parts is to be understood a Pugil; which is no more than one does usually take up between the Thumb and the two next Fingers.

   • 1989, Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen-Gun Salute:

     This kind of success was all luck, and if a man had only a given amount for his own share, it was a shame to fritter away so much as a pugil.

See also

• pugil stick

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pew?- and related to Latin pugnus (“fist”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pu.?il/, [?p?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pu.d??il/, [?pu?d??il]

Noun

pugil m (genitive pugilis); third declension

1. a boxer, pugilist
2. (figuratively) a hardened forehead

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• pugilic?

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: púgil
• English: pugilism, pugilist
• Italian: pugile
• Portuguese: púgil
• Spanish: púgil

References

• pugil in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pugil in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pugil in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pugil in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pugil in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers