ξίφος
Third declension Noun; Neuter
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ξίφος
ξίφους
Structure:
ξιφο
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- sword, the short, straight, double-edged sword of the Iron Age and Classical Antiquity.
- the sword-shaped bone of the cuttlefish
- swordfish
Declension
Third 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.
- οὔ τοι πόλλ’ ἐπὶ τόξα τανύσσεται οὐδὲ θαμειαὶ σφενδόναι, εὖτ’ ἂν δὴ μῶλον Ἄρησ συνάγῃ ἐν πεδίῳ, ξιφέων δὲ πολύστονον ἔσσεται ἔργον· (Plutarch, chapter 5 3:1)
- οὐκοῦν κλεινὴ καὶ ἔπαινον ἔχουσ’ ἐσ τόδ’ ἀπέρχει κεῦθοσ νεκύων, οὔτε φθινάσιν πληγεῖσα νόσοισ οὔτε ξιφέων ἐπίχειρα λαχοῦσ’, ἀλλ’ αὐτόνομοσ ζῶσα μόνη δὴ θνητῶν Αἵδην καταβήσει. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, anapests1)
- δούρατι δὲ προβολαίῳ ὑπ’ ἀσπίδι ὦμον ἔχοντα ἀνδρὸσ ὀρέξασθαι ξιφέων τ’ ἀνέχεσθαι ἀμυχμόν, κοσμῆσαί τε φάλαγγα λόχον τ’ ἀναμετρήσασθαι δυσμενέων ἐπιόντα καὶ ἱππήεσσι κελεῦσαι Κάστωρ Ἱππαλίδασ δέδαεν, φυγὰσ Ἄργεοσ ἐνθών, ὁππόκα κλᾶρον ἅπαντα καὶ οἰνόπεδον μέγα Τυδεὺσ ναῖε παρ’ Ἀδρήστοιο λαβὼν ἱππήλατον Ἄργοσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 65)
- ξιφέων δὲ πολύστονον ἔσσεται ἔργον· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 10)
- πᾶν δὲ τὸ λοιπὸν ἄκοντεσ, ἰσήριθμόσ τε χαλάζῃ χερμὰσ καὶ ξιφέων ἐξεκόλαψε γένυσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 842)
