πάχος [ᾰ], εος, τό,
(παχύς) thickness, τόσσον ἔην μῆκος τόσσον π. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.324; εἰ ἔχοι π. ἔχοι ἂν μόρια 5th c.BC: Melissus Philosophus 9; τὸ π. τοῦ τείχους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93; τῆς πλίνθου [prev. author] 3.20: _plural_, τὰ π. τῶν τριχῶν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 517b8 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ π. αὐτῶν ἐκμυελιεῖ [[ LXX.Num.24.8; σκήνεια ὀρθὰ καὶ πάχη ἔχοντα “PCair.Zen.” 353.11 (3rd c.BC): _absolutely_, πάχος] LXX+3rd c.BC+] in thickness, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.81, “IG” 12.372.11; also πάχει μάκει τε 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.245. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 σαρκὸς π. stoutness, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 380; διὰ πάχος τοῦ σώματος 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to λεπτότης, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 523e, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 consistency, thickness, of liquids or fluids, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Sensu” 441a29, “GA” 739a12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ π. τῆς θαλάσσης, attributed to its saltness, [[ [prev. author] “Mete.” 359a7; ὥστε γίνεσθαι τὸ π. ὡς κυκεῶνα 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 89.21. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__4 in concrete sense, thick mass, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.18. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]