pungere

Around the age of two, our daughter started amusing us with a variety of linguistic amalgamations -- 'mordere' is Italian for bite and 'bumsie' is Trinidadian for bottom; 'pungere' means to prick; 'cucina' is Italian for kitchen and 'malacqua' is a fusion of 'malako' the Russian for milk (learned from our Moldovan babysitter) -- and 'acqua', Italian for water.

Juliet Linley: Come to the Kitchina! 2009

Oh, her use of the precious present participle, "fucking," from the Indo-European peik, cognate with the Latin pungere, related to the Germanic ficken, purloined from the Middle Dutch fokken, associated with the Zemblan fögu_, universalized in the Esperanto fuga.

The Truth Will Out. Fathorse 2008

And before that, Roman noodges used the Latin pungere, “to prick, poke, urge.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

And before that, Roman noodges used the Latin pungere, “to prick, poke, urge.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Oh, her use of the precious present participle, 'fucking,' from the Indo-European peik, cognate with the Latin pungere, related to the Germanic ficken, purloined from the Middle Dutch fokken, associated with the Zemblan fogun, universalized in the Esperanto fuga.

languagehat.com: CHEKHOV. 2004

hoc melius telo pungere corda potes! nec flammas quaeras, sit ut alti pectoris ignis,

Roses and Thorns Anonymous 1912

Interposita minus hora pungere me manu coepit et dicere: 'quare non facimus?' tum ego totiens excitatus plane vehementer excandui et reddidi illi voces suas: 'aut dormi, aut ego iam patri dicam.'"

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Adj.) pellō pellere pepulī pulsus _drive out_ currō currere cucurrī cursum (est) _run_ parcō parcere pepercī parsūrus _spare_ canō canere cecinī ---- _sing_ tangō tangere tetigī tāctus _touch_ pungō pungere pupugī pūnctus _prick_

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

[5] "Solebat enim me pungere, ne Sampsicerami merita in patriam ad annos

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856