stagnum

English

Etymology

From Latin stāgnum.

Noun

stagnum (plural stagna)

1. (obsolete) A millpond.
   • 1865, John Fisher (of Masham.), The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire (page 182)

     See ante p. 44, where allusion is made to the grant by Roger de Mowbray to John, son of Drin, who had liberty to make this mill, and to fasten a stagnum or mill-pool.

Anagrams

• tangums, magnuts, manguts, Gutmans, mustang, Mustang

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to seep, drip”), whence also Ancient Greek στάζω (stázō, “to drip”) (with different ablaut grade), as well as Old Breton staer (“river, brook”). Conversely, possibly related to Ancient Greek τέναγος (ténagos, “shoal water, shallows”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstaːŋ.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstaɲ.ɲum]

Noun

stāgnum n (genitive stāgnī); second declension

1. a body of standing water (such as a pond, lagoon, swamp, fen or pool)
2. (poetic) waters
3. (poetic) any pool or lake in general

   Stāgnum ignis.

   A lake of fire.

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.327–330:

     Inde, ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora,
     Et cantu quaerulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
     Ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna jubebo
     currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam;
     […]

     • Translation by James B. Greenough, 1900

       When heaven's fourth hour draws on the thickening drought,
       And shrill cicalas pierce the brake with song,
       Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools,
       From troughs of holm-oak quaff the running wave:
       […]

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	stāgnum	stāgna
genitive	stāgnī	stāgnōrum
dative	stāgnō	stāgnīs
accusative	stāgnum	stāgna
ablative	stāgnō	stāgnīs
vocative	stāgnum	stāgna

Coordinate terms

• lacus, palūs

Derived terms

• stāgnālis
• stāgnātor
• stāgnensis
• stāgni incola
• stāgnīnus
• stāgnō
• stāgnōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: estany
• Italian: stagno
• Occitan: estanh
• Spanish: estanque
• Portuguese: estanque

Etymology 2

The spelling stagnum as a form of stannum (“tin”) is unattested before Pliny. Some analyses suspect a Gaulish interference may have caused the rise of this alternative form (compare Proto-Celtic *stagnom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstaŋ.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstaɲ.ɲum]

Noun

stagnum n (genitive stagnī); second declension

1. alternative form of stannum (“tin”)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	stagnum	stagna
genitive	stagnī	stagnōrum
dative	stagnō	stagnīs
accusative	stagnum	stagna
ablative	stagnō	stagnīs
vocative	stagnum	stagna

Further reading

• “stagnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stagnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "stagnum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “stagnum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)