ξίφος

• σκῐ́φος (skíphos) — Aeolic

Already in Late Mycenaean Greek (Ta-716 from Pylos), attested in the dual 𐀥𐀯𐀟𐀁 (qi-si-pe-e, “two swords”) (mostly ideographically as 𐃉). Probably of non-Greek origin, likely borrowed from Egyptian zft (“sword, knife”).[1] If not, perhaps both are from an Old Semitic saïf or sêf,[2] or from a Libyan or "Sea Peoples" word.[3]

ξῐ́φος • (xíphos) n (genitive ξῐ́φεος or ξῐ́φους); third declension

1. sword, the short, straight, double-edged sword of the Iron Age and Classical Antiquity.
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.194
   1. the sword-shaped bone of the cuttlefish
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 4.1.21
      1. swordfish
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Fragments 306
   2. corn-flag (Gladiolus italicus)

      Synonym: ξίφιον (xíphion)

      • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.13.1

• Greek: ξίφος (xífos)
• Mariupol Greek: пси́фос (psífos)

• “ξίφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ξίφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ξίφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ξίφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ξίφος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ξίφος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• ξίφος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blade idem, page 81.
  • brand idem, page 93.
  • rapier idem, page 672.
  • sword idem, page 849.
• A. Heubeck, 'Mykenisch *qi-si-po- = ξίφος', Minos 6 (1958), 114–116.
• “ξίφος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

From the Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos, s-stem).

• IPA^(key): /ˈksi.fos/

ξίφος • (xífos) n

1. sword

• σπαθί n (spathí)

• ξίφος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• ξίφος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.