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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀκινάκης ἀκινάκᾱ ἀκινάκαι
Genitive ἀκινάκου ἀκινάκαιν ἀκινακῶν
Dative ἀκινάκῃ ἀκινάκαιν ἀκινάκαις
Accusative ἀκινάκην ἀκινάκᾱ ἀκινάκᾱς
Vocative ἀκινάκα ἀκινάκᾱ ἀκινάκαι

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

  • οἱ δὲ εὐνοῦχοι ἰδόντεσ τὸ γεγενημένον, τρεῖσ ὄντεσ σπασάμενοι κἀκεῖνοι τοὺσ ἀκινάκασ ἀποσφάττονται οὗπερ ἔταξεν αὐτοὺσ ἑστηκότεσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 18:2)
  • ἆρ’ οὐκ οἰεί τὸν τοιοῦτον τότε εἰσ μὲν τὸν θρόνον ἐκεῖνον τὸ ἐπιθυμητικόν τε καὶ φιλοχρήματον ἐγκαθίζειν καὶ μέγαν βασιλέα ποιεῖν ἐν ἑαυτῷ, τιάρασ τε καὶ στρεπτοὺσ καὶ ἀκινάκασ παραζωννύντα; (Plato, Republic, book 8 202:1)
  • " οἱ δὲ δορυφόροι ὡσ ἤκουσαν ταῦτα, σπασάμενοι τοὺσ ἀκινάκασ κτείνουσι παραυτίκα μιν, οὕτω δὴ Ὀροίτεα τὸν Πέρσην Πολυκράτεοσ τοῦ Σαμίου τίσιεσ μετῆλθον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 128 6:2)
  • Κάσπιοι δὲ σισύρνασ τε ἐνδεδυκότεσ καὶ τόξα ἐπιχώρια καλάμινα ἔχοντεσ καὶ ἀκινάκασ ἐστρατεύοντο. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 67 2:1)
  • ἀπό τε τῶν κειμένων νεκρῶν ἐσκύλευον ψέλιά τε καὶ στρεπτοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ἀκινάκασ ἐόντασ χρυσέουσ, ἐπεὶ ἐσθῆτόσ γε ποικίλησ λόγοσ ἐγίνετο οὐδείσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 80 3:2)

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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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