ξιφήν · xiphēn — LSJ
sword-bearer
sword-bearer, Suid.
The corpus record
ξιφήν
xiphen · ὁ
sword-bearer
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What it meant
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.