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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

  • ὥστε ἐσ τήνδε τὴν παροῦσαν βασιλείαν, ἣν Ἀδριανὸσ εἰκοστὸν τοῦτ̓ ἔτοσ βασιλεύει, πολὺ μᾶλλον συμβαίνειν μοι δοκεῖ τὰ ἔπη ταῦτα ἤπερ ἔσ τὴν πάλαι Λακεδαίμονα ἑ̓́νθ̓ αἰχμά τε νέων θάλλει καὶ μῶσα λίγεια, καὶ δίκα εὐρυάγυια καλῶν ἐπιτάρροθοσ ἔργων. (Arrian, chapter 44 5:1)
  • δὶσ δὲ δυοῖν πιτύλοιν τείχη περὶ Δαρδανίασ φοινία κατέλυσεν αἰχμά. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 15)
  • Πριάμοιο δὲ γαῖαν Ἑλλὰσ ὤλεσ’ αἰχμά. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 25)
  • εἰ δ’ ἐγὼ σθένοσ ἥβων δόρυ τ’ ἔπαλλον ἐν αἰχμᾷ, Καδμείων τε σύνηβοι, τέκεσιν ἂν προπαρέσταν ἀλκᾷ· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, ephymnion 31)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ οὕτωσ πεποίηκε περὶ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ἔνθ’ αἰχμά τε νέων θάλλει καὶ μοῦσα λίγεια καὶ δίκα εὐρυάγυια Πίνδαροσ δέ φησιν ἔνθα βουλαὶ γερόντων καὶ νέων ἀνδρῶν ἀριστεύοντι αἰχμαὶ καὶ χοροὶ καὶ Μοῦσα καὶ ἀγλαϊά. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 21 3:2)

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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