Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xsiɸías/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ksifías/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ksifías/

Noun

ξιφίᾱς • ‎(xiphíās) m ‎(genitive ξιφίου); first declension

1. the swordfish
   • Aristotle, History of Animals 2.13,9
2. a type of comet
   • Pliny the Elder, Natural History 2.22

Inflection

References

• ξιφίας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «ξιφίας» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ξιφίας» 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
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Alternative forms

ξιφιός m ‎(xifiós)

Noun

ξιφίας • ‎(xifías) m ‎(plural ξιφίες)

1. swordfish

Declension

Related terms

• see: ξίφος n ‎(xífos, “sword”)

External links

• ξιφίας on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el