PAWN Copy link • PAWN 1. s. Pledge, pignus: to he in or at pawn, pigneratum, oppigneratum, or pignori oppositum esse: to give anything in pawn [Vid: to PAWN]: to receive or accept a pawn, pignus capere, auferre; anything in pawn, aliquid pignori accipere: not to redeem what one has left in pawn, pignus deserere: an unredeemed pawn, pignus desertum: to redeem a pawn, pignus liberare a creditore; reddere pecuniam et pignus reciperare (Jurisconsulti, as are several of the preceding expressions, which however, are undoubtedly classical; Vid: PLEDGE). (At chess), latro (Ov.); latrunculus (Sen.); miles gregarius; pedes, -itis. 2. v. pignerare (Suet.); oppignerare (Cic.); pignori opponere aliquid (Terentianus); pignori dare, obligare aliquid (Pand.); obligare aliquid pignoris nomine (after Cic., Att., 6, 1, 23): to pawn one’s books for wine, libellos pro vino oppignerare (Cic., Sest., 51, 110): to pawn for so much, by ob or an ablative; e.g., agrum pignori opponere ob decem minas (Terentianus); annulum octo minis oppignerare (Mart.): to pawn anything to anybody, apud aliquem pignori apponere: to pawn anything for a sum of money, accipere sub pignore mutuam pecuniam.