Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /máxera/

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

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

Noun

μάχαιρα • ‎(mákhaira) f ‎(genitive μαχαίρας); first declension

1. large knife, short sword, dirk, dagger

Usage notes

Later Greek used μαχαίρης and μαχαίρῃ for the singular genitive and dative respectively.

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: μαχαίρα ‎(machaíra, “large knife”)

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brand idem, page 93.
  • cleaver idem, page 137.
  • dagger idem, page 193.
  • dirk idem, page 226.
  • knife idem, page 470.
  • poniard idem, page 626.
  • rapier idem, page 672.
  • razor idem, page 674.
  • sword idem, page 849.

Greek

Noun

μάχαιρα • ‎(máchaira) f ‎(uncountable)

1. sword used by the ancient Greeks

Declension