fist Copy link Outline 1. pugnus (the clenched hand)2. cŏlăphus (a blow with the f.) • fist: 1. pugnus (the clenched hand): to double the hand and make a f., manum comprimere pugnumque facere, Cic. Acad. 2, 47, 145: to fight with f.s, pugnis certare, Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 77: to beat any one with the f.s, pugnis aliquem caedere, Pl.; stronger terms, pugnis contundere, pectere, onerare (to pummel, belabour), Pl.: to drive your f. into a man's face, p. alicui in os impingere, Pl. Rud. 3, 4, 5. 2. cŏlăphus (a blow with the f.): v. cuff, blow.
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: