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αἰχμητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰχμητής

Structure: αἰχμητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ai)xmh/

Sense

  1. a spearman
  2. pointed
  3. warlike

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αἰχμητής αἰχμητᾱ́ αἰχμηταί
Genitive αἰχμητοῦ αἰχμηταῖν αἰχμητῶν
Dative αἰχμητῇ αἰχμηταῖν αἰχμηταῖς
Accusative αἰχμητήν αἰχμητᾱ́ αἰχμητᾱ́ς
Vocative αἰχμητά αἰχμητᾱ́ αἰχμηταί

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

  • ιε# παῖ Τελαμῶνοσ, Αἰᾶν αἰχμητά, λέγουσί σε ἐσ Τροίαν ἄριστον ἐλθεῖν Δαναῶν μετ’ Ἀχιλλέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 6:1)
  • ἄμφω μὲν γὰρ ἀνεγγύω καὶ σκοτίω γενόμενοι δόξαν ἔσχον ἐκ θεῶν γεγονέναι, ἄμφω δ’ αἰχμητά, τό γε δὴ καὶ ἴδμεν ἅπαντεσ, καὶ μετὰ τοῦ δυνατοῦ τὸ συνετὸν ἔχοντεσ. (Plutarch, chapter 2 1:2)
  • ‐‐ Ἀργεία κυάνοφρυ, σὺ λαοφόνον Διομήδεα μισγομένα Τυδῆι τέκεσ, Καλυδώνιον ἄνδρα, ἀλλὰ Θέτισ βαθύκολποσ ἀκοντιστὰν Ἀχιλῆα Αἰακίδᾳ Πηλῆι, σὲ δ’ αἰχμητὰ Πτολεμαῖε αἰχμητᾷ Πτολεμαίῳ ἀρίζηλοσ Βερενίκα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 27)
  • Τήνελλα καλλίνικε, χαῖρ’ ἄναξ Ἡράκλεεσ, αὐτόσ τε κα ὶΙὄλαοσ, αἰχμητὰ δύο. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 679)
  • ἦ μέν μοι μάλα πολλὰ γέρων αἰχμητὰ Λυκάων ἐρχομένῳ ἐπέτελλε δόμοισ ἔνι ποιητοῖσιν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 23:12)

Synonyms

  1. pointed

  2. warlike

Related

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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