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καπροφόνος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: kaprophonos

Principal Part: καπροφόνος καπροφόνον

Structure: καπροφον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φένω

Sense

  1. killing wild boars

Examples

  • καπροφόνος δὲ κύων θηρσὶν κείνους ἰκελώσας δύσμορος, ὡς ἐπὶ γῆν εἰς βυθὸν ἐξέθορεν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 832)

Synonyms

  1. killing wild boars

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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