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σάγαρις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σάγαρις σάγαρεως

Structure: σαγαρι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Foreign word.

Sense

  1. a single edged axe or bill

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

  • εἶχον δὲ καὶ σαγάρεισ σιδηρᾶσ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 15:2)
  • εἰ οὖν ἡδέωσ βουλόμεθα καὶ δειπνῆσαι καὶ νυκτερεῦσαι καὶ βιοτεύειν τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦδε, μὴ δῶμεν τούτοισ σχολὴν μήτε βουλεύσασθαι μήτε παρασκευάσασθαι ἀγαθὸν αὑτοῖσ μηδέν, μηδὲ γνῶναι πάμπαν ὅτι ἄνθρωποί ἐσμεν, ἀλλὰ γέρρα καὶ κοπίδασ καὶ σαγάρεισ ἅπαντα καὶ πληγὰσ ἥκειν νομιζόντων. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 26:1)
  • καὶ οἱ πεζοὶ ἔχουσι μὲν γέρρα καὶ κοπίδασ καὶ σαγάρεισ ὥσπερ <οἱ> ἐπὶ Κύρου τὴν μάχην ποιησάμενοι· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 8 32:1)
  • ὁπλίζονται δὲ γέρρῳ ῥομβοειδεῖ, παρὰ δὲ τὰσ φαρέτρασ σαγάρεισ ἔχουσι καὶ κοπίδασ, περὶ δὲ τῇ κεφαλῇ πίλημα πυργωτόν, θώραξ δ’ ἐστὶν αὐτοῖσ φολιδωτόσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 38:4)

Synonyms

  1. a single edged axe or bill

Related

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

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