The corpus record

ἀκόντ-ισμα

akontisma · τό

distance thrown with javelin

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Where it lives

On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

ἀκόντ-ισμα · akont-isma — LSJ

distance thrown with javelin, dartʼs throw

distance thrown with javelin, ἐντὸς ἀκοντίσματος within dartʼs throw, X. HG 4.4.16.

II dart, javelin

dart, javelin, Str. 4.6.7 (pl.), Plu. Alex. 43, Arr. Tact. 9.1.

III

in pl., = the concrete ἀκοντισταί, Plu. Pyrrh. 21.

In the wild

ἀκοντίσματος · akontismatos Xenophon, Hellenica 4.4.16 (DIORISIS sentence 1551)
ἀκόντισμά · akontisma Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 12.13 (DIORISIS sentence 385)

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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