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πυγών

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυγών πυγόνος

Structure: πυγων (Stem)

Sense

  1. the distance from the elbows to the first joint of the fingers, = 20

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πυγών πυγόνε πυγόνες
Genitive πυγόνος πυγόνοιν πυγόνων
Dative πυγόνι πυγόνοιν πυγόσιν*
Accusative πυγόνα πυγόνε πυγόνας
Vocative πυγών πυγόνε πυγόνες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ Θάσῳ τὸν σκορπίον ὠνοῦ, ἐὰν ᾖ μὴ μείζων πυγόνοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 115 3:1)
  • αἱ δὲ ἄρκυσ λίνων μὲν τῶν αὐτῶν ὧνπερ αἱ τῶν λαγῶν, <ἔστωσαν δὲ> πεντεκαιτετταρακοντάλινοι ἐκ τριῶν τόνων, ἕκαστοσ δὲ τόνοσ ἐκ πεντεκαίδεκα λίνων, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ κορυφαίου τὸ μέγεθοσ δεχάμματοι, τὸ δὲ βάθοσ τῶν βρόχων πυγόνοσ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 3:1)
  • ταῦτα μὲν τὰ μέτρα ἔξωθεν τῆσ στέγησ τῆσ μουνολίθου ἐστί, ἀτὰρ ἔσωθεν τὸ μῆκοσ ὀκτωκαίδεκα πηχέων καὶ πυγόνοσ . (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 175 5:1)
  • πλὴν ἀλλ’, ὦ Ῥοδίων ἄριστε, εἰ καὶ ὅτι μάλιστα προτιμητέοσ εἶ τῶν χρυσῶν, πῶσ ἂν καὶ προεδρεύοισ, εἰ μὴ δεήσει ἀναστῆναι πάντασ ὡσ μόνοσ καθέζοιο, τὴν Πνύκα ὅλην θατέρᾳ τῶν πυγῶν ἐπιλαβών; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 11:9)

Synonyms

  1. the distance from the elbows to the first joint of the fingers

    • πῆχυς ( cubit, the distance from the point of the elbow to that of the little finger)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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