The story
- Latin · derived frompūgiō“dagger”
- New Latin · borrowed frompugioniformis
- English todaypugioniform
Borrowed from New Latin pugioniformis, from Latin pūgiō (“dagger”). By surface analysis, Latin pugion + -i- + form.
Words from the same roots
Latinpūgiō all →
pugio
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.