Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pygian

/ˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: py-gian
IPA: /ˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to or resembling buttocks.

Example Sentences

"[...] and the terrible conviction forced itself upon my mind, that progress for me in this path there was none, until my executioner should have turned my pygian epidermis into a road-map, and have engraved all my stopping places indelibly ..."
"Pygian Mysteries Eumolpus did not hesitate to invite the girl to the pygian mysteries. He asked her to sit down on the good part recommended to her (that is, on himself, to whose goodness her mother had recommended her daughter)."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) + -ian, or extracted from callipygian and similar terms.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: πυγή
Suffix: -ian

Inflected Forms

more pygian (comparative) most pygian (superlative)

Synonyms

natiform

Questions

How do you pronounce pygian?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/.
What does pygian mean?: Pertaining to or resembling buttocks.
Where does pygian come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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