-PAGUS Definition & Meaning

-pagus

a combining form used in the names of severely malformed, usually nonviable, conjoined twins, with the site of attachment specified by the initial element.
thoracopagus.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of -pagus¹

< New Latin < Greek ��á��ǲ� fixation, something fixed or solid

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Frankish assembly at, 119; Pope Leo III. meets Charlemagne at, 130.Pagus,

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Pagus, pā′gus, n. a country district with scattered hamlets, also its fortified centre: among the early Teutons, a division of the territory larger than a village, like a wapentake or hundred.

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Later, the pagus Attuariorum corresponds to the district of Emmerich and Xanten.

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Gregory of Tours is the first historian who makes mention of the ancient Pagus Blensensis.

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The Paganalia of each pagus, and the Compitalia of each vicus were also conceptivae.

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pagurid pah

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