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athamé

athamé is the alternative form of athame.

Meaning of athame

Noun

athame (plural athames)

  1. A ceremonial pointed knife or dagger, used especially in Wicca and other neopagan traditions and typically having a black handle with magical symbols on it.
    • She is moving with a regal gait, grasping the arthame, or magic knife.1931, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, chapter 7, in JC Locke, transl., Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy

Forms of athamé

pluralathamés

Questions about athamé

What is athamé the alternative form of?
Athamé is the alternative form of athame.

Words near athamé in the dictionary

  1. athamantin
  2. Athamas
  3. athambia
  4. athame
  5. athames
  6. athamé
  7. athamés
  8. athan
  9. Athanaselis
  10. Athanaselises
  11. Athanasellis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: athamé (page history and authors); athame (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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