English

Noun

pancratium ‎(plural pancratiums)

1. (historical) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
2. (botany) 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.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /panˈkra.ti.um/

Noun

pancratium n ‎(genitive pancratiī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pancratium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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