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μάχαιρα (machaira): all forms

μάχαιρα means “knife, dagger”. Below is its full declension in Ancient Greek.

Forms

Forms, singular
Feminine
Nominativeμάχαιρα
Genitiveμαχαίρης
Dativeμαχαίρᾳ
Accusativeμάχαιραν
Vocativeμάχαιρα
Forms, plural
Feminine
Nominativeμάχαιραι
Genitiveμαχαιρῶν
Dativeμαχαίραις
Accusativeμαχαίρας
Vocativeμάχαιραι

Meaning and examples of μάχαιρα

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.