iugus

• jugus

For Proto-Italic *jugos, from Proto-Indo-European *yugós (“yoked”), from *yewg- (“to join, to yoke, to harness”) + *-ós (adjectival suffix). Contrast iugum, a nominal formation, and iūgis, likely unrelated. For the divine epithet, cf. Ancient Greek Ἥρα ζυγία (Hḗra zugía).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯u.ɡus/, [ˈi̯ʊɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ɡus/, [ˈjuːɡus]

iugus (feminine iuga, neuter iugum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (rare) combined together, in all
   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, On Agriculture 10.2:

     vāsa oleāria īnstrūcta iuga V

     oil-pressing vessels, 5 in all

2. (hapax) nuptial (as a divine epithet of Juno)

   Synonyms: prōnuba, iugālis

First/second-declension adjective.

• “iugus” on page 1078 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN