μασχάλην (maschalen)

μασχάλην is an Ancient Greek form of μασχάλη, meaning “arm-pit; hollow at base of a shoot, axil”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Strabo, Geography 6.2.3: … κατὰ τὸ λεχθὲν πλευρὸν πόλεων ἡ μὲν Μεσσήνη τῆς Πελωριάδος ἐν κόλπῳ κεῖται, καμπτομένης ἐπὶ πολὺ πρὸς ἕω καὶ μασχάλην τινὰ ποιούσης· ἀπέχει δὲ τοῦ μὲν Ῥηγίου δίαρμα ἑξηκονταστάδιον, τῆς δὲ στυλίδος πολὺ ἔλαττον. κτίσμα δʼ ἐστὶ …

All forms of μασχάλη (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.