ξῐφ-ισμός · xiph-ismos — LSJ
sword-dance, sword-play
sword-dance, Ath. 14.629f; sword-play, D.C. 47.44.
The corpus record
ξῐφ-ισμός
xiphismos · ὁ
sword-dance
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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.