μηχανήν (mechanen)

μηχανήν is an Ancient Greek form of μηχανή, meaning “device, means, machine”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 101 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.100.1: … ουρῶν καὶ Μεγαρέων ἅμα, ἐστράτευσαν ἐπὶ τὸ Δήλιον καὶ προσέβαλον τῷ τειχίσματι, ἄλλῳ τε τρόπῳ πειράσαντες καὶ μηχανὴν προσήγαγον, ἥπερ εἷλεν αὐτό, τοιάνδε.

Plutarch, Marcellus 15.3: … των κενὴ προσπέσοι τοῖς τείχεσιν ἢ περι· ολίσθοι τῆς λαβῆς ἀνείσης. ἣν δὲ ὁ Μάρκελλος ἀπὸ τοῦ ζεύγματος ἐπῆγε μηχανήν, σαμβύκη μὲν ἐκαλεῖτο διʼ ὁμοιότητά τινα σχήματος πρὸς τὸ μουσικὸν ὄργανον,

All forms of μηχανή (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.