Latin

Verb

pangō ‎(present infinitive pangere, perfect active pepigī, supine pāctum); third conjugation

1. I fasten, fix, set; drive or sink in.
2. I set or plant something in the ground.
3. I compose, write
   • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Ars Poetica

     Ego mira poemata pango

     I compose marvellous poems

4. (figuratively) I settle, determine, agree, conclude, stipulate, fix; pledge.
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.931

     […] primum quod magnis doceo de rebus et artis
     religionum animum nodis exsolvere pergo,
     deinde quod obscura de re tam lucida pango
     carmina musaeo contingens cuncta lepore.

     • 1916 translation by William Ellery Leonard

       First, since I teach concerning mighty things,
       And go right on to loose from round the mind
       The tightened coils of dread religion;
       Next, since, concerning themes so dark, I frame
       Songs so pellucid, touching all throughout

Inflection

• The third principal part may be pepigī, pēgī, or panxī.

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Derived terms

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References

• pango in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pango in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pango”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Tagalog

Adjective

pangô

1. snub-nosed

Synonyms

• sarat