The corpus record

αἰχμητής

aichmetes · ὁ

spearman, warrior

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Iliad 24 · 2.15/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Memorabilia 2 · 0.56/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

αἰχμ-ητής · aichm-ētēs — LSJ

spearman, warrior

spearman, warrior, esp. opp. to archers, Il. 2.543, Od. 2.19, al., Archil. 119, cj. in Alcm. 68, etc.

In Pi. as Adj.,

1 pointed, spear-wielding

pointed (or spear-wielding), αἰ. κεραυνός P. 1.5.

2 warlike

warlike, αἰ. θυμός N. 9.37:—fem. αἴχμητις (sic), EM 595.39.

In the wild

αἰχμητήν · aichmētēn Euripides, Hecuba *xoro/s (DIORISIS sentence 42)
αἰχμητὴς · aichmētēs Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 511)
αἰχμητάων · aichmētaōn Shield of Heracles 178–182
αἰχμητάων · aichmētaōn Iliad 1.152
αἰχμητὴν · aichmētēn Iliad 1.290
αἰχμητήν · aichmētēn Iliad 11.739

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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