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ἀνδροφόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνδροφόνος

Structure: ἀνδροφον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)nh/r, fe/nw

Sense

  1. man-slaying
  2. murdering husbands
  3. one convicted of manslaughter, a homicide

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἀνδροφόνος ἀνδρόφονον
Genitive ἀνδροφόνου ἀνδροφόνου
Dative ἀνδροφόνῳ ἀνδροφόνῳ
Accusative ἀνδροφόνον ἀνδρόφονον
Vocative ἀνδροφόνε ἀνδρόφονον
DualN/A/V ἀνδροφόνω ἀνδροφόνω
G/D ἀνδροφόνοιν ἀνδροφόνοιν
PluralNominative ἀνδροφόνοι ἀνδρόφονα
Genitive ἀνδροφόνων ἀνδροφόνων
Dative ἀνδροφόνοις ἀνδροφόνοις
Accusative ἀνδροφόνους ἀνδρόφονα
Vocative ἀνδροφόνοι ἀνδρόφονα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀνδροφόνος ἀνδροφόνου ἀνδροφονώτερος ἀνδροφονωτέρου ἀνδροφονώτατος ἀνδροφονωτάτου
Adverb ἀνδροφόνως ἀνδροφονώτερον ἀνδροφονώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ὁ μὲν οὖν ἀνδροφόνοσ καὶ βλάσφημοσ τὰ χείριστα παθών, ὡσ ἑτέρουσ διέθηκεν, ἐπὶ ξένησ ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσιν οἰκτίστῳ μόρῳ κατέστρεψε τὸν βίον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:28)
  • ἀπὸ δ’ ἄμφω κέρσε τένοντε ἀνδροφόνοσ μελίη· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 38:4)
  • ἦ που τυμβωρύχοσ τισ ἢ ἀνδροφόνοσ ἢ ἱερόσυλόσ ἐστιν; (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 14:7)
  • "ἔπειτ’ ἐπὶ τούτοισ πᾶσιν ἧκ’ ὄρχεισ φέρων πολλούσ, τὰ μὲν οὖν γύναια τἄλλ’ ἠκκίζετο, ὁ ἡ δ’ ἀνδροφόνοσ Γνάθαιν’ ἀναγελάσασ1’ ἅμα · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 33 1:9)
  • πότερον ὅτι τὴν ἀνάγκην μόνην ἐξουσίαν εἶναι δεῖ τοῦ ἀνελεῖν ἄνθρωπον, ὁ δ’ ἄνευ νόμου καὶ προστάγματοσ τοῦτο ποιῶν ἀνδροφόνοσ ἐστί; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 39 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. man-slaying

  2. murdering husbands

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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