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μαχαίριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαχαίριον μαχαίριου

Structure: μαχαιρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xaira의 지소사, Xen.

Sense

Declension

Second 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

  • τοῦ δὲ μὴ ἀποσείεσθαι τοὺσ ἀμβάτασ μηδέ τι ἄλλο ἀτάσθαλον ἐργάζεσθαι, τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῖσιν ἐν κύκλῳ μαχαιρίῳ ὀξέι ἐπιτέμνουσι, καὶ τὸν βρόχον κατὰ τὴν τομὴν περιδέουσιν, ὡσ ἀτρέμα ἔχειν τὴν κεφαλήν τε καὶ τὸν τράχηλον ὑπὸ τοῦ ἕλκεοσ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 13 12:1)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν ἄχραντον καὶ καθαρὸν εἰσ τὸ στόμα βαλοῦσαν αὐτὴν ἐσθίειν, δοῦναι δὲ τῇ Στατείρᾳ πεφαρμαγμένον ὁ δὲ Δείνων οὐ τὴν Παρύσατιν, ἀλλὰ τὸν Μελάνταν τέμνοντα τῷ μαχαιρίῳ τὰ φαρμασσόμενα τῶν κρεῶν τιθέναι κατὰ τὴν Στάτειραν. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 19 3:4)
  • "Κελτοί, φησί, τὰσ τροφὰσ προτίθενται χόρτον ὑποβάλλοντεσ καὶ ἐπὶ τραπεζῶν ξυλίνων μικρὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ ἐπηρμένων, ἡ τροφὴ δ’ ἐστὶν ἄρτοι μὲν ὀλίγοι, κρέα δὲ πολλὰ ἐν ὕδατι καὶ ὀπτὰ ἐπ’ ἀνθράκων ἢ ὀβελίσκων, προσφέρονται δὲ ταῦτα καθαρείωσ μέν, λεοντωδῶσ δέ, ταῖσ χερσὶν ἀμφοτέραισ αἴροντεσ ὅλα μέλη καὶ ἀποδάκνοντεσ, ἐὰν δὲ ᾖ τι δυσαπόσπαστον, μαχαιρίῳ μικρῷ παρατέμνοντεσ, ὃ τοῖσ κολεοῖσ ἐν ἰδίᾳ θήκῃ παράκειται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 361)

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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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