Quote Originally Posted by Martin Greywolf View Post
For swords, you have three general types. First one is kopis, and it basically looke like Sting from LotR and Hobbit. It's primarily a stabbing sword with added cutting capacity, used as a backup for when your spear is lost or ineffective. Second type is makhaira, and it's more or less an oversized kukri, or, to get another Hobbit reference here, Orcrist. Third type is a long, triangular balde with fine point that can't cut worth a damn, but is good for stabbing.
I suspect you're talking more about the Classical than Hellenistic era for the most part.

That first sword you describe is a xiphos, not a kopis. Kopis and machaira are basically interchangeable terms for curved/forward-weighted choppers. That triangular sword you describe is a late Hellenistic machaira (no idea why it's called a machaira, but apparently it is).

You've left out Celtic-inspired swords, which look pretty much the way you'd expect a medieval sword to, though their hilts are different. And Iberian swords which look like a hybrid of xiphos and Celtic longsword.