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Morphological Analyses for Inflected Greek Words

When outputting Greek, we use an underscore ("_") as a Greek long mark: e.g. poli_tês shows that the iota is long.
The form machairas has 2 analyses derived from 2 dictionary entries.
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machairaa large knife or dirk Entry in LSJ or Middle Liddell or Slater or Autenrieth
machaira_sfem acc pl
machaira_sfem gen sg attic doric aeolic
Frequency in other AuthorsGreek Word Search
CorpusWordsMax. Inst.Freq./10KMin. Inst.Freq./10K
Greek Prose41729401480.351480.35
Greek Poetry671088220.33220.33
Greek Texts48440281700.351700.35
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