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ἀκινάκης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκινάκης

Structure: ἀκινακ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a short straight sword

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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἀντιλαμβανόμενοι τῶν δοράτων ταῖσ χερσὶ γυμναῖσ συνέθραυον τὰ πλεῖστα, καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ ξιφουλκίασ ἐχώρουν οὐκ ἀργῶσ, ἀλλὰ ταῖσ τε κοπίσι καὶ τοῖσ ἀκινάκαισ χρώμενοι καὶ τὰσ ἀσπίδασ παρασπῶντεσ καὶ συμπλεκόμενοι χρόνον πολὺν ἀντεῖχον. (Plutarch, , chapter 18 3:3)
  • καὶ οἱ σικάριοι δὲ καλούμενοι, λῃσταὶ δέ εἰσιν οὗτοι, τότε μάλιστα ἐπλήθυον χρώμενοι ξιφιδίοισ παραπλησίοισ μὲν τὸ μέγεθοσ τοῖσ τῶν Περσῶν ἀκινάκαισ, ἐπικαμπέσι δὲ καὶ ὁμοίαισ ταῖσ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων σίκαισ καλουμέναισ, ἀφ’ ὧν καὶ τὴν προσηγορίαν οἱ λῃστεύοντεσ ἔλαβον πολλοὺσ ἀναιροῦντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 20 229:1)

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

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