Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pyɣí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyʝí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piʝí/

Noun

πῡγή • ‎(pūgḗ) f ‎(genitive πυγῆς); first declension

1. rump, buttocks
   • Archilochus, Collected Works 84
   1. (figuratively) fat, swelling land
      • Eustathius 310
2. = οὐρά ‎(ourá, “tail”)
   • Etymologicum Magnum 513.14

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἐρυθροπυγός ‎(eruthropugós)
• καλλίπυγος ‎(kallípugos)
• μελαμπῦγος ‎(melampûgos)
• πυγίδιον ‎(pugídion)
• στεατοπυγός ‎(steatopugós)

Synonyms

• οὖθαρ ‎(oûthar, “udder”)
• οὐρά ‎(ourá, “tail”)

References

• πυγή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πυγή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πυγή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • rump idem, page 726.
• LSJ 8th edition