pagus

Meaning

1. (declension-2) district, province, region, canton
2. (declension-2) area outside of a city, countryside; rural community
3. (declension-2) country or rural people
4. (declension-2) clan
5. (Medieval-Latin, declension-2) village
6. (Medieval-Latin, declension-2) territory

Concepts

country

village

district

land

nation

periphery

precinct

province

region

shire

state

territory

ambit

hamlet

area

countryside

Synonyms

rus

ora

plaga

regio

terra

vicus

fines finium

ager

vīcus

Translations

village

pueblo

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Land

camp

Region

campagna

Dorf

villaggio

εξοχή

campagne

χωριό

open veld

Landschaft

قرية

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈpaː.ɡʊs]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Perhaps "a space with fixed boundaries". See related terms. Compare the meaning, "region", of fīnis again perhaps of a root meaning "to fix".