sword-bearing, wearing of arms
sword-bearing, wearing of arms, Wilcken Chr. 13.9 (i A. D.).
The corpus record
μᾰχαιρο-φορά
machairophora · ἡ
sword-bearing, wearing of arms
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What it meant — LSJ
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.