Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πᾶχυς ‎(pâkhus) Aeolic

Noun

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

1. forearm, from the wrist to the elbow
   • Hippocrates, Collected Works 751.C
2. the centrepiece, which joined the two horns of an ancient bow
   • Homer, Odyssey 21.419
3. (in the plural) the horns or sides of the lyre
   • Herodotus, Histories 4.192
4. (in the balance) the beam
   • Theological Principles of Arithmetic 39
5. (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
6. (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

Inflection

Antonyms

• (lyre horns): ζυγόν ‎(zugón, “bridge”)

References

• 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.