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μηχανήματα (mechanemata)

μηχανήματα is an Ancient Greek form of μηχάνημα, meaning “device, machine, trick”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracles 855: μὴ σὺ νουθέτει τά θʼ Ἥρας κἀμὰ μηχανήματα.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 4.25.2: … παρίεσαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ κλίμακας προστιθέντες ἐπειρῶντο ὑπερβαίνειν ἐς τὴν πόλιν καὶ ὑπώρυσσον κάτωθεν τὸ τεῖχος, μηχανήματά τε, ὁποῖα ἐνῆν διʼ ὀλίγου παρασκευάσασθαι, προσαγαγόντες ἀεί τι ἤρειπον· δείσαντες δὲ οἱ ἔνδον μὴ ἁλούσης τῆς …

All forms of μηχάνημα (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.