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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

  • οὐ γὰρ αἰχμητὴσ πέφυκεν, ἐν γυναιξὶ δ’ ἄλκιμοσ. (Euripides, episode, trochees32)
  • πολλῶν φύλαξ ἀττελεβόφθαλμοσ, μὴ πρόστομοσ, ἀμφικέφαλλοσ, αἰχμητήσ, παίδων ἀγόνων γόνον ἐξαφανίζων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 71 2:13)
  • ἐν ταῖσ διατριβαῖσ ἢ παρὰ τὰ συμπόσια, ἄλλον ἄλλου στίχον προκρίνοντοσ, αὐτὸσ ὡσ διαφέροντα πάντων ἐνέκρινε τοῦτον, ἀμφότερον βασιλεύσ τ’ ἀγαθὸσ κρατερόσ τ’ αἰχμητήσ, ὃν ἄλλοσ ἔπαινον τῷ χρόνῳ προέλαβε, τοῦτον αὑτῷ νόμον κεῖσθαι λογιζόμενοσ, ὥστ’ εἰπεῖν Ὅμηρον ὅτι τῷ αὐτῷ μέτρῳ τὴν μὲν Ἀγαμέμνονοσ ἀνδραγαθίαν κεκόσμηκε, τὴν δ’ Ἀλεξάνδρου μεμάντευται. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 102)
  • αἰχμητήσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 18:1)
  • ἦ καὶ βασιλεύειν, ἔφη ὁ Ἀντισθένησ, ἐπίστασαι, ὅτι οἶσθα ἐπαινέσαντα αὐτὸν τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα ὡσ βασιλεύσ τε εἰή ἀγαθὸσ κρατερόσ τ’ αἰχμητήσ; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 7:6)

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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