πήχεος (pecheos)

πήχεος is an Ancient Greek form of πῆχυς, meaning “forearm; cubit”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plato, Alcibiades 1 126: … τήν; ναί. οὐκοῦν καὶ αὐτὸς αὑτῷ ἕκαστος; ναί. διὰ τίνα δὲ τέχνην ἕκαστος αὐτὸς αὑτῷ ὁμονοεῖ περὶ σπιθαμῆς καὶ πήχεος ὁπότερον μεῖζον; οὐ διὰ τὴν μετρητικήν; τί μήν; οὐκοῦν καὶ οἱ ἰδιῶται ἀλλήλοις καὶ αἱ πόλεις; ναί. τί δέ; περ …

Hippocrates, De fracturis 3: … ι χωρὶς τῆς ἄλλης λύμης· τὸ γὰρ ὀστέον τὸ παρὰ τὸν καρπὸν ἐξέχον, τὸ κατὰ τὸν σμικρὸν δάκτυλον, τοῦτο μὲν τοῦ πήχεός ἐστιν· τὸ δʼ ἐν τῆ ξυγκάμψει ἐὸν, ἀπʼ ὅτευ τὸν πῆχυν οἱ ἄνθρωποι μετρέουσι, τοῦτο δὴ τοῦ βραχίονος ἡ κεφαλή ἐ …

All forms of πῆχυς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.