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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

  • πολλῆσ δ’ ἔριδοσ συνέπαισε κλύδων, δόξα δ’ ἐχώρει δίχ’ ἀν’ Ἑλλήνων στρατὸν αἰχμητήν, τοῖσ μὲν διδόναι τύμβῳ σφάγιον, τοῖσ δ’ οὐχὶ δοκοῦν. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests5)
  • Ὅμηροσ μὲν γὰρ κινδυνεύει οὐ μόνον διαφθεῖραι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑβρίσαι εἰσ αὐτὴν ποιήσασ γὰρ τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα ἀγαθὸν τὰ πολεμικά, τὸν Μενέλαον δὲ μαλθακὸν αἰχμητήν, θυσίαν ποιουμένου τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ ἄκλητον ἐποίησεν ἐλθόντα τὸν χείρονα ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ ἀμείνονοσ δίαιταν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 53)
  • αὐτὸν εἴρηκε μαλθακὸν αἰχμητὴν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Πλάτων τῷ ὄντι μαλθακὸν αὐτὸν ὑπολαμβάνει, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοι καὶ τὸν · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 5 2:1)
  • ὡσ οὖν ἀρήιόν τινα τὸν Ῥωμύλον ἢ αἰχμητὴν θεὸν ὀνομασθῆναι Κυρῖνον. (Plutarch, chapter 29 1:2)
  • τὰ πολεμικά, τὸν δὲ Μενέλεων "μαλθακὸν αἰχμητήν," θυσίαν ποιουμένου καὶ ἑστιῶντοσ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ ἄκλητον ἐποίησεν ἐλθόντα τὸν Μενέλεων ἐπὶ τὴν θοίνην, χείρω ὄντα ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ ἀμείνονοσ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 19:1)

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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