1. μαχαίρ-ιον · machair-ion
surgeonʼs, barberʼs knife
surgeonʼs or barberʼs knife, Hp. Medic. 6, 7, Arist. GA 789b13, Metaph. 1061a4, Com.Adesp. 327, Plu. Brut. 13, Ruf. Ren. Ves. 12.12.
The corpus record
μαχαίρ-ιον
machairion · τό
surgeonʼs, barberʼs knife
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Where it lives
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
- Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
2. μᾰχαιρίων · machairiōn
= ξιφίον, Dsc. 4.20; v.l. μαχαιρώνιον.
In the wild
- μαχαίριον · machairion Aristotle, Metaphysics book 11 (DIORISIS sentence 2920)
- μαχαίριον · machairion Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.20.1 (DIORISIS sentence 386)
- μαχαίριον · machairion Xenophon, Anabasis 4.7.16 (DIORISIS sentence 1937)
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.