ăcīnăcēs — Lewis & Short
ăcīnăcēs, is, m., = a)kina/khs,
I the short sabre of the Persians, Medes, and Scythians, a scimitar, Hor. C. 1, 27, 5; Curt. 3, 3, 4; 4, 15, 17 al.
The corpus record — Latin
acinaces
acinaces · m
the short sabre of the Persians
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Where it lives
- Historiae Alexandri Magni 7 · 0.94/10k
- Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
- Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
- Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
- Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- acinacem Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.3.4
- acinaces Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.21.11.3
- acinacem Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 10.1.31
- acinacen Tacitus, Annales 12.p52
- acinacis Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.3.6
- acinaces Horace, Carmina 1.27
6 of 11 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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