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μάχη
μάχη
See also: μάχῃ
Ancient Greek
Noun
μᾰ́χη • (mákhē) f (genitive μᾰ́χης); first declension
- battle, combat
- quarrel, strife, dispute
- contest, game
- battlefield
- (logic) contradiction, inconsistency
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μᾰ́χη | τὼ μᾰ́χᾱ | αἱ μᾰ́χαι | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μᾰ́χης | τοῖν μᾰ́χαιν | τῶν μᾰχῶν | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μᾰ́χῃ | τοῖν μᾰ́χαιν | ταῖς μᾰ́χαις | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μᾰ́χην | τὼ μᾰ́χᾱ | τᾱ̀ς μᾰ́χᾱς | ||||||||||
Vocative | μᾰ́χη | μᾰ́χᾱ | μᾰ́χαι | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. |
Synonyms
- (contest): ἀγών (agṓn)
Derived terms
- Τῡφωνομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (Tūphōnomakhíā)
References
- μάχη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μάχη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μάχη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «μάχη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «μάχη» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G3163”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- battle idem, page 65.
- battle-field idem, page 65.
- brawl idem, page 94.
- combat idem, page 144.
- conflict idem, page 159.
- contest idem, page 168.
- encounter idem, page 271.
- engagement idem, page 274.
- fight idem, page 318.
- fighting idem, page 319.
- fray idem, page 343.
- strife idem, page 825.
- struggle idem, page 828.
- tactics idem, page 852.
- undecided idem, page 912.
- warfare idem, page 963.
Greek
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek μᾰ́χη (mákhē).
Noun
μάχη • (máchi) f (plural μάχες)
Declension
declension of μάχη
singular | plural | |
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nominative | μάχη | μάχες |
genitive | μάχης | μαχών |
accusative | μάχη | μάχες |
vocative | μάχη | μάχες |