pancratium

From Latin pancratium, from Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “a complete contest”). See pankration.

pancratium (plural pancratiums)

1. (Ancient Greece) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
2. 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.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /panˈkra.ti.um/, [päŋˈkrät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /panˈkrat.t͡si.um/, [päŋˈkrät̪ː͡s̪ium]

pancratium n (genitive pancratiī or pancratī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• (gymnastic contest, which is a blend of wrestling and boxing): pammachum

• pancratiās
• pancratiastēs
• pancraticē
• pancratius

• English: pancratium
• French: pancrace

• paradoxus

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pancratium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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