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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

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

  • Παμφύλοισί τε πᾶσι καὶ αἰχμηταῖσ Κιλίκεσσι σαμαίνει, Λυκίοισ τε φιλοπτολέμοισί τε Καρσί, καὶ νάσοισ Κυκλάδεσσιν, ἐπεί οἱ νᾶεσ ἄρισται πόντον ἐπιπλώοντι, θάλασσα δὲ πᾶσα καὶ αἰᾶ καὶ ποταμοὶ κελάδοντεσ ἀνάσσονται Πτολεμαίῳ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 48)
  • ἀλλ’ εὐθὺσ σύμπαντεσ ἀλοιησεῦμεν ἁμαρτῆ ἀνδράσιν αἰχμηταῖσ ἐγγύθεν ἱστάμενοι· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 16)
  • ἐσχατιαὶ Λιβύων Νασαμωνίδεσ, οὐκέτι θηρῶν ἔθνεσιν ἠπείρου νῶτα βαρυνόμεναι, ἠχοῖ ἐρημαίαισιν ἐπηπύσεσθε λεόντων ὠρυγαῖσ ψαμάθουσ ἄχρισ ὑπὲρ Νομάδων, φῦλον ἐπεὶ νήριθμον ἐν ἰχνοπέδαισιν ἀγρευθὲν ἐσ μίαν αἰχμηταῖσ Καῖσαρ ἔθηκεν ὁ παῖσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 6261)

Synonyms

  1. pointed

  2. warlike

Related

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

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