πυγή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *spugeh₂. Cognates include Latin pūga, Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паоуга (pauga), пѫга (pǫga).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pyː.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /pyˈʝi/ → /piˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pyː.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈʝi/

Noun

πῡγή • (pūgḗ) f (genitive πῡγῆς, diminutive πυγαῖον or πυγίδιον); first declension

1. rump, buttocks
   • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 84
   1. (figuratively) fat, swelling land
      • Eustathius 310
2. = οὐρά (ourá, “tail”)
   • Etymologicum Magnum 513.14

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πῡγή; τῆς πῡγῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῡγή hē pūgḗ	τὼ πῡγᾱ́ tṑ pūgā́	αἱ πῡγαί hai pūgaí
Genitive	τῆς πῡγῆς tês pūgês	τοῖν πῡγαῖν toîn pūgaîn	τῶν πῡγῶν tôn pūgôn
Dative	τῇ πῡγῇ têi pūgêi	τοῖν πῡγαῖν toîn pūgaîn	ταῖς πῡγαῖς taîs pūgaîs
Accusative	τὴν πῡγήν tḕn pūgḗn	τὼ πῡγᾱ́ tṑ pūgā́	τᾱ̀ς πῡγᾱ́ς tā̀s pūgā́s
Vocative	πῡγή pūgḗ	πῡγᾱ́ pūgā́	πῡγαί pūgaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• οὖθαρ (oûthar, “udder”)
• οὐρά (ourá, “tail”)

Derived terms

• ἐμπύγια (empúgia)
• καλλίπυγος (kallípugos)
• καταπύγαινα (katapúgaina)
• καταπυγίζω (katapugízō)
• κατάπυγος (katápugos)
• καταπύγων (katapúgōn)
• μελαμπῦγος (melampûgos)
• πῡ́γᾰργος (pū́gargos)
• πῡγολᾰμπῐ́ς (pūgolampís)

Further reading

• “πυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • rump idem, page 726.