ἐγχειρ-ίδιος, ον,
(χείρ) in the hand, ἱκετῶν κλάδοι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 21 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II as substantive, ἐγχειρ-ίδιον, τό, hand-knife, dagger, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.12, 214, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.70, etc.; ἐγχειριδίῳ πλήττειν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 4.6, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 handle, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.3.4, 3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.3 manual, handbook, title of works by [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus and others, compare 2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1013.12 F., 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.1.14, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor “Prolegomena ad Hephaestionis Euchiridion” p.86 C. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.4 tool, implement, [[ LXX.Exo.20.25. [-ῐδιον 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 46.] ] LXX+5th c.BC+]