πῆχυς

See also: πήχυς

Ancient Greek

πῆχῠς • (pêkhus) m (genitive πήχεως); third declension

forearm, from the wrist to the elbow
- Hippocrates, Collected Works 751C
the centrepiece, which joined the two horns of an ancient bow
- Homer, Odyssey 21.419
(in the plural) the horns or sides of the lyre
- Herodotus, Histories 4.192
(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
- Pollux, Onomasticon 2.158
1. a cubit-rule, foot-rule
  - Aristophanes, The Frogs 799
(in the plural) the cubits, small children one cubit in height represented in pictures as playing round the Nile
- Lucian, A Professor of Public Speaking 6
- Philostratus, Collected Works 769

Third declension of ὁ πῆχῠς; τοῦ πήχεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- arm idem, page 40.
- cubit idem, page 188.
- ell idem, page 265.
- forearm idem, page 336.
- inch idem, page 428.
- yard idem, page 995.
- yard-measure idem, page 995.

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