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μαχαιρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαχαιρίς μαχαιρίδος

Structure: μαχαιριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xaira의 지소사

Sense

  1. a rasor

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.

Examples

  • ἵνα δὲ καὶ γελοιοτέρῳ τινὶ τὰ σὰ εἰκάσω, τοὺσ κουρέασ τούτουσ ἐπίσκεψαι, καὶ ὄψει τοὺσ μὲν τεχνίτασ αὐτῶν ξυρὸν καὶ μαχαιρίδασ καὶ κάτοπτρον σύμμετρον ἔχοντασ, τοὺσ δὲ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 29:3)
  • ἀμαθεῖσ καὶ ἰδιώτασ πλῆθοσ μαχαιρίδων προτιθέντασ καὶ κάτοπτρον μεγάλα, οὐ μὴν λήσειν γε διὰ ταῦτα οὐδὲν εἰδότασ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 29:4)
  • ἔγωγε νὴ τοὺσ κονδύλουσ οὓσ πολλὰ δὴ ’πὶ πολλοῖσ ἠνεσχόμην ἐκ παιδίων, μαχαιρίδων τε πληγάσ, ὑπερβαλεῖσθαί σ’ οἰόμαι τούτοισιν, ἢ μάτην γ’ ἂν ἀπομαγδαλιὰσ σιτούμενοσ τοσοῦτοσ ἐκτραφείην. (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme2)
  • τοῦτό φησιν ὁ Κτησίασ μικρᾷ μαχαιρίδι κεχρισμένῃ τῷ φαρμάκῳ κατὰ θάτερα τὴν Παρύσατιν διαιροῦσαν ἐκμάξαι τῷ ἑτέρῳ μέρει τὸ φάρμακον· (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 19 3:3)

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

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