jugum

Borrowing from Latin jugum (“a yoke, collar; a pair of anything; the summit, ridge”). Doublet of yoke and yuga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɡəm/

jugum (plural juga or jugums)

1. (zootomy) A connecting ridge or projection, especially on a bone.
2. (entomology) A lobe on the forewing of some moths which interlocks with the hindwing in flight.
3. (botany) One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
4. (botany) A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.

• jugary

• “jugum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “jugum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “jugum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• IPA^(key): /(d)ʒù.ɡúm/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɪ̀.ɡʷʊ́m]

jùgum

1. sad, dejected

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯u.ɡum/, [ˈi̯ʊɡʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ɡum/, [ˈjuːɡum]

jugum n (genitive jugī); second declension

1. Post-classical form of iugum.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “jugum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• jugum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “jugum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin