Latin

Noun

rogus m ‎(genitive rogī); second declension

1. A funeral pile
2. (figuratively) The grave

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Italian: rogo
• Romanian: rug

See also

• pyra

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rogus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 854