Etymograph

English

pagus

Pagus comes from Latin pāgus ‘district, canton, region’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- ‘to attach, fix, fasten’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ǵ-1‘to attach, fix, fasten’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāgos1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāgus1‘district, canton, region’
  4. Englishtodaypagus1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English pagus

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ǵ-Wiktionary, English pagus‘to attach, fix, fasten’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāgosWiktionary, English pagusreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāgusWiktionary, English pagus‘district, canton, region’
  4. EnglishtodaypagusWiktionary, English pagus

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- ‘to attach, fix, fasten’

travel, page, pole, compact, propaganda, peel, pale, propagate, travail, pectin, pala, paganism, impinge, palisade, impactor, pagination, 27 more

through Latin pāgus ‘district, canton, region’

peasant, pagan, 5 more

Today it means

noun A country district with scattered hamlets.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pagus”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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