The corpus record

μᾰχ-ητικός

machetikos

fit for fighting

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Where it lives

Sophist 3 · 1.87/10k
Rhetoric 4 · 0.93/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fit for fighting, warlike, pugnacious, skill in fighting, restive, pugnaciously, in a hostile manner

fit for fighting, ὀδόντες μ. Arist. PA 662b34; warlike, μ. παιδιαί Id. Rh. 1371a1; of persons, pugnacious, ib. 1381a32, etc.; μ. περὶ κέρδους ib. 1372b31: ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη), skill in fighting, Pl. Sph. 225a; τὸ -κόν ibid.; μ. ἵπποι restive horses, Id. R. 467e. Adv. -κῶς pugnaciously, Id. Tht. 168b; in a hostile manner, μ. διακείμενα Simp. in Cael. 197.9.

In the wild

μαχητικὰς · machētikas Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
μαχητικοὶ · machētikoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
μαχητικοί · machētikoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
μαχητικοὶ · machētikoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
μαχητικῶν · machētikōn Plato, Republic 5.467 (DIORISIS sentence 3233)
μαχητικῆς · machētikēs Plato, Sophist 225

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