pignore

pignore is a Latin form of pignus, meaning “pledge, security; token, proof; (pl.) children, dear ones”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.39: … m centurionibusque mutuas pecunias sumpsit; has exercitui distribuit. Quo facto duas res consecutus est, quod pignore animos centurionum devinxit et largitione militum voluntates redemit.

Lucan, Civil War 10.10: Pignore tam saevi sceleris, sua signa secutus.

All forms of pignus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.