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αἰχμή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰχμή

Structure: αἰχμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)kh/ I, or a)i/+ssw

Sense

  1. the point of a spear
  2. a spear
  3. a body of spearmen
  4. war, battle, the war
  5. warlike spirit, mettle, spirit
  6. a sceptre

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αἰχμή αἰχμᾱ́ αἰχμαί
Genitive αἰχμῆς αἰχμαῖν αἰχμῶν
Dative αἰχμῇ αἰχμαῖν αἰχμαῖς
Accusative αἰχμήν αἰχμᾱ́ αἰχμᾱ́ς
Vocative αἰχμή αἰχμᾱ́ αἰχμαί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ τί δειμαίνω περιώσιον ἀντὶ μὲν αἰχμῆσ ὡσ θοὸν ἔγχοσ ἔχουσα μελίφρονα δεσμὸν ἐρώτων; (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 149)
  • τὸ μὲν ὅλον, ἄχρηστον, ὦ Ζεῦ, προειδέναι τὰ μέλλοντα οἷσ γε τὸ φυλάξασθαι αὐτὰ παντελῶσ ἀδύνατον εἰ μὴ ἄρα τοῦτο φήσ, ὡσ ὁ προμαθὼν ὅτι ὑπ’ αἰχμῆσ σιδηρᾶσ τεθνήξεται δύναιτ’ ἂν ἐκφυγεῖν τὸν θάνατον καθείρξασ ἑαυτόν; (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 12:4)
  • οἴμοι, τέκνον, ὡσ οὐχ ὑπ’ αἰχμῆσ <σ’> οὐδ’ ὑπ’ Ἀργείου δορὸσ γάμουσ γαμεῖσθαι τούσδ’ ἐδόξαζόν ποτε. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:3)
  • τί δὲ τὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ αἰχμῆσ προσαγορευόμενον; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 3 2:1)
  • τί δὲ τὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ αἰχμῆσ προσαγορευόμενον; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 3 1:3)
  • οἵ γε μὲν ἤμων αἰχμῇσ ὀξείῃσι κορωνιόωντα πέτηλα, βριθόμενα σταχύων, ὡσ εἰ Δημήτεροσ ἀκτήν· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 26:7)

Synonyms

  1. the point of a spear

  2. a spear

  3. war

  4. warlike spirit

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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