Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λαιμότμητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαιμότμητος λαιμότμητον

Structure: λαιμοτμητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from laimo/s

Sense

  1. with the throat severed

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ τὸ λαιμότμητον εἰσορᾷσ κάρα Γοργόνοσ, ἀδελφὸν δ’ εἰσορᾷσ ἥκοντα σόν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 6:22)

Synonyms

  1. with the throat severed

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

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