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ξίφος
ξίφος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σκῐ́φος (skíphos) Aeolic
Noun
ξῐ́φος • (xíphos) n (genitive ξῐ́φεος or ξῐ́φους); third declension
- sword, the short, straight, double-edged sword of the Iron Age and Classical Antiquity.
- the sword-shaped bone of the cuttlefish
- a type of plant (compare ξιφίον (xiphíon))
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ξῐ́φος | τὼ ξῐ́φεε | τᾰ̀ ξῐ́φεᾰ | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ξῐ́φεος | τοῖν ξῐφέοιν | τῶν ξῐφέων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ξῐ́φεῐ̈ | τοῖν ξῐφέοιν | τοῖς ξῐ́φεσῐ(ν) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ξῐ́φος | τὼ ξῐ́φεε | τᾰ̀ ξῐ́φεᾰ | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ξῐ́φος | ξῐ́φεε | ξῐ́φεᾰ | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ξῐ́φος | τὼ ξῐ́φει | τᾰ̀ ξῐ́φη | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ξῐ́φους | τοῖν ξῐφοῖν | τῶν ξῐφῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ξῐ́φει | τοῖν ξῐφοῖν | τοῖς ξῐ́φεσῐ(ν) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ξῐ́φος | τὼ ξῐ́φει | τᾰ̀ ξῐ́φη | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ξῐ́φος | ξῐ́φει | ξῐ́φη | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
References
- ξίφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ξίφος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ξίφος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ξίφος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ξίφος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ξίφος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- «ξίφος» 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- A. Heubeck, 'Mykenisch *qi-si-po- = ξίφος', Minos 6 (1958), 114–116.
- Johannes Dümichen, Historische Inschriften altägyptischer Denkmäler vol. 1, Leipzig (1867), 26-27.
- John Linton Myres, Who were the Greeks?, University of California Press, 1930, p. 590
Greek
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos, s-stem).
Noun
ξίφος • (xífos) n
Synonyms
- σπαθί n (spathí)
Derived terms
Terms derived from ξίφος