dagger
Dim. of ξίφος, dagger, Ar. Lys. 53, Th. 3.22, POxy. 936.9 (iii A.D.), etc.
2
= σπαργάνιον, Ps.-Dsc. 4.21.
The corpus record
ξῐφ-ίδιον
xiphidion · τό
dagger
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- History 2 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ξιφίδιον · xiphidion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4841)
- ξιφίδιον · xiphidion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4839)
- ξιφιδίῳ · xiphidiōi Thucydides, History 3.22.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1875)
- ξιφιδίου · xiphidiou Thucydides, History 8.69.4 (DIORISIS sentence 5796)
- ξιφίδια · xiphidia Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.23 (DIORISIS sentence 540)
- ξιφίδια · xiphidia Xenophon, Hellenica 5.4.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2228)
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.