πυγών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch”), the same root of πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist-fight”) and Latin pugnus (“fist”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.ɡɔ̌ːn/ → /pyˈɣon/ → /piˈɣon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py.ɡɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈɡon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈɣon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈɣon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈɣon/

Noun

πῠγών • (pugṓn) m (genitive πῠγόνος); third declension

1. 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
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	τοῖν πῠγόνοιν toîn pugónoin	ταῖς πῠγόσῐ / πῠγόσῐν taîs pugósi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῠγόνᾰ tḕn pugóna	τὼ πῠγόνε tṑ pugóne	τᾱ̀ς πῠγόνᾰς tā̀s pugónas
Vocative	πῠγών pugṓn	πῠγόνε pugóne	πῠγόνες pugónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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