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παραξιφίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραξιφίς παραξιφίδος

Structure: παραξιφιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ci/fos

Sense

  1. a knife worn beside the sword, a dirk

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

  • παραξιφὶσ πρὸσ τούτοισ ἢ κοπίσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 3 12:6)

Synonyms

  1. a knife worn beside the sword

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

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