πυγών
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch”), the same root of πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist-fight”) and Latin pugnus (“fist”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /py.ɡɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈɡon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈɣon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈɣon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈɣon/
Noun
πῠγών • (pugṓn) m (genitive πῠγόνος); third declension
- distance from the elbow to the first joint of the fingers, used as a measure of length
Declension
Third declension of ἡ πῠγών; τῆς πῠγόνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πῠγών hē pugṓn | τὼ πῠγόνε tṑ pugóne | αἱ πῠγόνες hai pugónes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πῠγόνος tês pugónos | τοῖν πῠγόνοιν toîn pugónoin | τῶν πῠγόνων tôn pugónōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πῠγόνῐ têi pugóni | πῠγόνοιν pugónoin | ταῖς πῠγόσῐ / πῠγόσῐν taîs pugósi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πῠγόνᾰ tḕn pugóna | πῠγόνε pugóne | τᾱ̀ς πῠγόνᾰς tā̀s pugónas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῠγών pugṓn | πῠγόνε pugóne | πῠγόνες pugónes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πυγονιαῖος (pugoniaîos)
References
- πυγών in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πυγών in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυγών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN