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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch”). Cognates include Latin pugnus, Lithuanian pušìs, and Old English fyst (English fist). Compare πύξ (púx) and πεύκη (peúkē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pyŋ.mɛ̌ː/ → /pyɣˈmi/ → /piɣˈmi/
Noun
πυγμή • (pugmḗ) f (genitive πυγμῆς); first declension
- fist
- boxing
- a measure of length, the distance from the elbow to the knuckles (= 18 δάκτυλοι (dáktuloi), about 34 centimetres or 13
+1⁄2 inches)
ante 177 CE,
Pollux,
Onomasticon 2. 147, 158
Inflection
Further reading
- “πυγμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυγμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πυγμή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πυγμή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πυγμή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4435 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.