Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pyɣmí/

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

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

Noun

πυγμή • ‎(pugmḗ) f ‎(genitive πυγμῆς); first declension

1. fist
   • Hippocrates, On Joints 833
   1. boxing
      • Homer, Iliad 23.669
2. a measure of length, the distance from the elbow to the knuckles (= 18 δάκτυλοι ‎(dáktuloi), about 13.5 inches)
   • Pollux, Onomasticon 2. 147, 158

Inflection

See also

• πυγών ‎(pugṓn)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boxing idem, page 92.
  • fist idem, page 323.
• LSJ 8th edition