πελέκεις (pelekeis)

πελέκεις is an Ancient Greek form of πέλεκυς, meaning “axe”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of πελεκάω, “hew; shape with an axe”.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.128: πάντως κα πελέκεις καὶ λαμπάδες ἦνθον ἐφʼ ὑμέας.

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.