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The corpus record

πάχος

pachos · τό

thickness, in thickness, stoutness

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Where it lives

  • On Hunting 3 · 3.3/10k
  • De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
  • Regnorum III 5 · 2.62/10k
  • De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
  • Paralipomenon II 2 · 1.02/10k
  • Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
  • Job 1 · 0.75/10k
  • Numeri 1 · 0.43/10k
  • Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
  • Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
  • Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
  • History 3 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

thickness, in thickness

thickness, τόσσον ἔην μῆκος τόσσον π. Od. 9.324 ; εἰ ἔχοι π. ἔχοι ἂν μόρια Meliss. 9 ; τὸ π. τοῦ τείχους Th. 1.93 ; τῆς πλίνθου Id. 3.20 : pl., τὰ π. τῶν τριχῶν Arist. HA 517b8 ; τὰ π. αὐτῶν ἐκμυελιεῖ LXX Nu. 24.8 ; σκήνεια ὀρθὰ καὶ πάχη ἔχοντα PCair.Zen. 353.11 (iii B. C.) : abs., πάχος in thickness, Hdt. 4.81, IG 1(2).372.11 ; also πάχει μάκει τε Pi. P. 4.245.

2 stoutness

σαρκὸς π. stoutness, E. Cyc. 380 ; διὰ πάχος τοῦ σώματος Antiph. 19 ; opp. λεπτότης, Pl. R. 523e, etc.

3 consistency, thickness

consistency, thickness, of liquids or fluids, Arist. Sens. 441a29, GA 739a12 ; τὸ π. τῆς θαλάσσης, attributed to its saltness, Id. Mete. 359a7 ; ὥστε γίνεσθαι τὸ π. ὡς κυκεῶνα Ph. Bel. 89.21.

4 thick mass

in concrete sense, thick mass, Dsc. 5.18.

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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