πυγή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pouga. Cognates include Latin pūga, Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паѹга (pauga), пѫга (pǫga).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.ɡɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈɡe/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈɣi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈʝi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈʝi/
Noun
πῡγή • (pūgḗ) f (genitive πῡγῆς); first declension
- rump, buttocks
- Archilochus, Collected Works 84
- (figuratively) fat, swelling land
- Eustathius 310
- = οὐρά (ourá, “tail”)
- Etymologicum Magnum 513.14
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πῡγή hē pūgḗ |
τὼ πῡγᾱ́ tṑ pūgā́ |
αἱ πῡγαί hai pūgaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πῡγῆς tês pūgês |
τοῖν πῡγαῖν toîn pūgaîn |
τῶν πῡγῶν tôn pūgôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πῡγῇ têi pūgêi |
τοῖν πῡγαῖν toîn pūgaîn |
ταῖς πῡγαῖς taîs pūgaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πῡγήν tḕn pūgḗn |
τὼ πῡγᾱ́ tṑ pūgā́ |
τᾱ̀ς πῡγᾱ́ς tā̀s pūgā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πῡγή pūgḗ |
πῡγᾱ́ pūgā́ |
πῡγαί pūgaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- καλλίπυγος (kallípugos)
- μελάμπυγος (melámpugos)
Further reading
- 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.
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