αἰχμήν (aichmen)

αἰχμήν is an Ancient Greek form of αἰχμή, meaning “spear-point, spear”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 276: πάγχαλκον αἰχμὴν δεῦρο. μυρίοι δέ με

Plutarch, Alexander 51.5: … μβεῖα ταῦτα περαίνων οἴμοι, καθʼ Ἑλλάδʼ ὡς κακῶς νομίζεται. οὕτω δὴ λαβὼν παρά τινος τῶν δορυφόρων Ἀλέξανδρος αἰχμήν ἀπαντῶντα τὸν Κλεῖτον αὐτῷ καὶ παράγοντα τὸ πρὸ τῆς θύρας παρακάλυμμα διελαύνει.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 6.11.3: … ʼ ἀλλήλων φέρουσιν ἰσχυράς, οὐ μὴν καιρίους, ὁ μὲν ἱππάρχης εἰς τὰ στέρνα τοῦ Μαμιλίου διὰ θώρακος ἐλάσας τὴν αἰχμἠν, ὁ δὲ Μαμίλιος μέσον περονήσας τὸν δεξιὸν ἐκείνου βραχίονα· καὶ πίπτουσιν ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων.

All forms of αἰχμή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.