πῆχυς

See also: πήχυς

Ancient Greek

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

forearm, from the wrist to the elbow
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 751C
the centrepiece, which joined the two horns of an ancient bow
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.419
(in the plural) the horns or sides of the lyre
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, 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
- ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.158
1. a cubit-rule, foot-rule
  - 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 799
(in the plural) the cubits, small children one cubit in height represented in pictures as playing round the Nile
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A Professor of Public Speaking 6
- 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Collected Works 769

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.

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	πῆχῠς pêkhus	πήχεε pḗkhee	πήχεες pḗkhees
Genitive	πήχεος pḗkheos	πηχέοιῐν pēkhéoiin	πήχεων pḗkheōn
Dative	πήχει pḗkhei	πηχέοιῐν pēkhéoiin	πηχέεσσῐ / πηχέεσσῐν / πηχέεσῐ / πηχέεσῐν / πήχεσῐ / πήχεσῐν pēkhéessi(n) / pēkhéesi(n) / pḗkhesi(n)
Accusative	πῆχῠν pêkhun	πήχεε pḗkhee	πήχεᾰς pḗkheas
Vocative	πῆχῠ pêkhu	πήχεε pḗkhee	πήχεες pḗkhees
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

“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, 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.