μάχαιρα
See also: μαχαίρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μάχομαι (mákhomai, “to fight”). Compare with μάχη (mákhē, “a battle, a strife”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /má.kʰai̯.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈma.kʰɛ.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈma.çɛ.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈma.çe.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈma.çe.ra/
Noun
μάχαιρα • (mákhaira) f (genitive μαχαίρας); first declension
Usage notes
Later Greek used μαχαίρης (makhaírēs) and μαχαίρῃ (makhaírēi) for the singular genitive and dative respectively.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μάχαιρᾰ hē mákhaira |
τὼ μαχαίρᾱ tṑ makhaírā |
αἱ μάχαιραι hai mákhairai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μαχαίρᾱς tês makhaírās |
τοῖν μαχαίραιν toîn makhaírain |
τῶν μαχαιρῶν tôn makhairôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μαχαίρᾳ têi makhaírāi |
τοῖν μαχαίραιν toîn makhaírain |
ταῖς μαχαίραις taîs makhaírais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μάχαιρᾰν tḕn mákhairan |
τὼ μαχαίρᾱ tṑ makhaírā |
τᾱ̀ς μαχαίρᾱς tā̀s makhaírās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μάχαιρᾰ mákhaira |
μαχαίρᾱ makhaírā |
μάχαιραι mákhairai | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Derived terms
- μαχαιροθήκη (makhairothḗkē)
- μαχαιρόφυλλον (makhairóphullon)
- ξιφομάχαιρα (xiphomákhaira)
Descendants
- Greek: μαχαίρα (machaíra, “large knife”)
- Translingual: †Machairodus
References
- “μάχαιρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μάχαιρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μάχαιρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μάχαιρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μάχαιρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μάχαιρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3162 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μάχαιρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Noun
μάχαιρα • (máchaira) f (uncountable)
Declension
μάχαιρα
case \ number | singular |
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nominative | μάχαιρα • |
genitive | μάχαιρας • |
accusative | μάχαιρα • |
vocative | μάχαιρα • |
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