1. ἀκϊνάκης · akinakēs — Beekes
The corpus record
ἀκινάκης
akinakes
short sword of Persians and Scythians
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Where it lives
- Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
- Against Timocrates 1 · 0.69/10k
- Histories 10 · 0.54/10k
- Cyropaedia 3 · 0.38/10k
- Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
What it meant
2. ἀκινάκης · akinakēs — Frisk
3. ἀκινάκης · akinakēs — Frisk
4. ἀκινάκης · akinakēs — LSJ
Persian word, short straight sword, Hdt. (v. infr.), cf. X. An. 1.2.27 (also acc. -άκεα Hdt. 3.118; pl. -άκεας v.l. ib. 128); ἀ. ἐπίχρυσος, a Persian sword kept in the Parthenon, IG 1.170.17, cf. 2.646.11; νὴ τὸν ἀκινάκην, a Scythian oath, Luc. Tox. 38, cf. JTr. 42. [ăcīnăces in Hor. Od. 1.27.5.]
In the wild
- ἀκινάκην · akinakēn Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 129 (DIORISIS sentence 444)
- ἀκινάκας · akinakas Herodotus, Histories 3.128.5 (DIORISIS sentence 3852)
- ἀκινάκῃ · akinakēi Herodotus, Histories 4.62.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4451)
- ἀκινάκης · akinakēs Herodotus, Histories 4.62.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4450)
- ἀκινάκεω · akinakeō Herodotus, Histories 4.62.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4453)
- ἀκινάκην · akinakēn Herodotus, Histories 4.70.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4498)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἀκινάκης (scan pp. 98-99; entry #289).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἀκινάκης (scan p. 83; entry #275).
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