FIST Copy link • FIST 1. s. pugnus. To double the fist, pugnum facere; comprimere in pugnum manus (opposed to manus explicare); digitos comprimere pugnumque facere (opposed to digitos diducere et manum dilatare). With one’s doubled fist, manu compressa: to give anybody a blow in the face with one’s fist, colaphum alicui impingere: to give anybody a blow in the face with one’s doubled fist, pugnum factum alicui in os impingere: to strike anybody with one’s fists, pugnis caedere (pugnis onerare, comedy). 2. v. Strike with the fist, pugnis caedere: pugnis onerare (comic): colaphum alicui impingere (to hit anybody with one’s fist in the face). Seize (obsolete), Vid: