rogus

See also: Rogus and Roguś

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rogos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ɡus/, [ˈrɔɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ɡus/, [ˈrɔːɡus]

Noun

rogus m (genitive rogī); second declension

1. funeral pyre, funeral pile

   Synonym: pyra

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.676:

     “Hoc rogus iste mihi, hoc ignēs āraeque parābant?”

     “Was this pyre [to mean] that for me, this fire, and the altars, they [were all] contriving?”

2. (figuratively) the grave

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rogus	rogī
genitive	rogī	rogōrum
dative	rogō	rogīs
accusative	rogum	rogōs
ablative	rogō	rogīs
vocative	roge	rogī

Descendants

• → Aromanian: rug
• → Italian: rogo
• → Romanian: rug

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “rogus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 854