Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μάχιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάχιμος μάχιμη μάχιμον

Structure: μαχιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. fit for battle, warlike, the fighting men, soldiery, the warrior-caste, the effective force

Examples

  • οὐδὲν δὲ τῶν σβεστηρίων ὄξουσ πυρὶ μαχιμώτερον, ἀλλὰ μάλιστα πάντων ἐπικρατεῖ καὶ συμπιέζει τὴν φλόγα δι’ ὑπερβολὴν ψυχρότητοσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 14:4)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀνάγκησ ἐν πολέμῳ μαχιμώτερον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 185:2)

Related

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

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