-pagus

a combining form used in the names of severely malformed, usually nonviable, conjoined twins, with the site of attachment specified by the initial element:
thoracopagus.

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Origin of -pagus¹

< New Latin < Greek págos fixation, something fixed or solid

Several manses composed a march; and several marches formed a pagus or district.

The pagus seems to have generally been divided into hundreds (centenae).

The name was a development from Pagus Legionensis, a large military colony having been quartered there in Roman times.

Gregory of Tours is the first historian who makes mention of the ancient Pagus Blensensis.

The Breisgau, originally a pagus or gau of the Frankish empire, was ruled during the middle ages by hereditary counts.

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