Latin

bovēs cum iugō (oxen with yoke)

Alternative forms

• jugum

Noun

iugum n ‎(genitive iugī); second declension

1. yoke (for oxen) or collar (for a horse)
2. (by extension) a team of oxen
3. beam or rail fastened perpendicular to a post
4. a makeshift archway of three spears under which a vanquished enemy was made to pass in humiliation
5. Libra (constellation)
6. (nautical) rower's bench
7. summit or ridge of a mountain
8. (figuratively) bond (of slavery, matrimony, etc.)

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• quadriiugis
• quadriiugus

Related terms

Descendants

References

• iugum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• iugum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• IUGUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “iugum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to submit to the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis accipere
    
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis excutere
    
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servile a cervicibus deicere (Phil. 1. 2. 6)
    
  • to deliver some one from slavery: iugum servile alicui demere
    
  • to deliver some one from slavery: ab aliquo servitutem or servitutis iugum depellere
    
  • (ambiguous) a perpetual spring: aqua iugis, perennis
    
• iugum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers