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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

  • αἰχμηταὶ καὶ νῦν καὶ πάροσ Αἰακίδαι. (Plutarch, chapter 26 5:2)
  • ἡμετέρῳ βασιλῆϊ, θεοῖσι φίλῳ Θεοπόμπῳ, ὃν διὰ Μεσσήνην εἵλομεν εὐρύχορον, Μεσσήνην ἀγαθὴν μὲν ἀροῦν, ἀγαθὴν δὲ φυτεύειν, ἀμφ’ αὐτὴν δ’ ἐμάχοντ’ ἐννεακαίδεκ’ ἔτη νωλεμέωσ αἰεί, ταλασίφρονα θυμὸν ἔχοντεσ, αἰχμηταὶ πατέρων ἡμετέρων πατέρεσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 72)
  • αἰχμηταὶ καὶ νῦν καὶ πάροσ Αἰακίδαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1302)
  • οἵδε παρ’ Εὐρυμέδοντά ποτ’ ἀγλαὸν ὤλεσαν ἥβην μαρνάμενοι Μήδων τοξοφόρων προμάχοισ αἰχμηταὶ πεζοί τε καὶ ὠκυπόρων ἐπὶ νηῶν· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2581)
  • Εὐθυμάχων ἀνδρῶν μνησώμεθα, τῶν ὅδε τύμβοσ, οἳ θάνον εὔμηλον ῥυόμενοι Τεγέαν, αἰχμηταὶ πρὸ πόληοσ, ἵνα σφίσι μὴ καθέληται Ἑλλὰσ ἀποφθιμένου κρατὸσ ἐλευθερίαν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4421)

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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