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φονικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φονικός φονική φονικόν

Structure: φονικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fo/nos

Sense

  1. inclined to slay, murderous, bloody, sanguinary
  2. of murder or homicide, for homicide, respecting homicide, murderous acts, murder, homicide

Examples

  • καὶ καλοῦσι μέχρι νῦν οὕτωσ ἐν τῷ καταλόγῳ τῶν βασιλέων, οὐ κυρίωσ δήπου τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ σημαίνοντεσ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ τρόπου τὴν σκληρότητα καὶ κακίαν ὀργάνῳ φονικῷ παρεικάζοντεσ. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 11 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to slay

  2. of murder or homicide

Related

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

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