πυγών

Ancient Greek

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

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

distance from the elbow to the first joint of the fingers, used as a measure of length

Third declension of ἡ πῠγών; τῆς πῠγόνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῠγών hē pŭgṓn	τὼ πῠγόνε tṑ pŭgóne	αἱ πῠγόνες hai pŭgónes
Genitive	τῆς πῠγόνος tês pŭgónos	τοῖν πῠγόνοιν toîn pŭgónoin	τῶν πῠγόνων tôn pŭgónōn
Dative	τῇ πῠγόνῐ tēî pŭgónĭ	τοῖν πῠγόνοιν toîn pŭgónoin	ταῖς πῠγόσῐ / πῠγόσῐν taîs pŭgósĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῠγόνᾰ tḕn pŭgónă	τὼ πῠγόνε tṑ pŭgóne	τᾱ̀ς πῠγόνᾰς tā̀s pŭgónăs
Vocative	πῠγών pŭgṓn	πῠγόνε pŭgóne	πῠγόνες pŭgónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“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