πῆχυς
See also: πήχυς
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Hellenic *pā́kʰus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús. Cognates include Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu, “arm”), Old Persian 𐎲𐎠𐏀𐎢 (b-a-z-u /bāzu/) (Persian بازو (bâzu)), and Old English bōg (English bough).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pɛ̂ː.kʰys/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe̝.kʰys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.çys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.çys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.çis/
Noun
editπῆχῠς • (pêkhus) m (genitive πήχεως); third declension
- forearm, from the wrist to the elbow
- the centrepiece, which joined the two horns of an ancient bow
- (in the plural) the horns or sides of the lyre
- (in the balance) the beam
- Theological Principles of Arithmetic 39
- (as a measure of length) cubit, the distance from the point of the elbow to that of the little finger
- ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.158
- (in the plural) the cubits, small children one cubit in height represented in pictures as playing round the Nile
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πῆχῠς ho pêkhus |
τὼ πήχει tṑ pḗkhei |
οἱ πήχεις hoi pḗkheis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πήχεως toû pḗkheōs |
τοῖν πηχέοιν toîn pēkhéoin |
τῶν πήχεων tôn pḗkheōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πήχει tôi pḗkhei |
τοῖν πηχέοιν toîn pēkhéoin |
τοῖς πήχεσῐ / πήχεσῐν toîs pḗkhesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πῆχῠν tòn pêkhun |
τὼ πήχει tṑ pḗkhei |
τοὺς πήχεις toùs pḗkheis | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῆχῠ pêkhu |
πήχει pḗkhei |
πήχεις pḗkheis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “lyre horns”): ζυγόν (zugón, “bridge”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “πῆχυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πῆχυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πῆχυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πῆχυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πῆχυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4083 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- πῆχυς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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