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πυγών?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: pygōn

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 πυγόσι(ν)
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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