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λαιμότομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαιμότομος λαιμότομον

Structure: λαιμοτομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with the throat cut, severed by the throat, severed head

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative λαιμότομος λαιμότομον
Genitive λαιμοτόμου λαιμοτόμου
Dative λαιμοτόμῳ λαιμοτόμῳ
Accusative λαιμότομον λαιμότομον
Vocative λαιμότομε λαιμότομον
DualN/A/V λαιμοτόμω λαιμοτόμω
G/D λαιμοτόμοιν λαιμοτόμοιν
PluralNominative λαιμότομοι λαιμότομα
Genitive λαιμοτόμων λαιμοτόμων
Dative λαιμοτόμοις λαιμοτόμοις
Accusative λαιμοτόμους λαιμότομα
Vocative λαιμότομοι λαιμότομα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective λαιμότομος λαιμοτόμου λαιμοτομότερος λαιμοτομοτέρου λαιμοτομότατος λαιμοτομοτάτου
Adverb λαιμοτόμως λαιμοτομότερον λαιμοτομότατα

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

  • εἴθ’ εὐχαῖσιν δεσποσύνοισ Λήδασ Ἑλένα φίλα παῖσ ἐλθοῦσα τύχοι τὰν Τρῳάδα λι‐ ποῦσα πόλιν, ἵν’ ἀμφὶ χαί‐ τᾳ δρόσον αἱματηρὰν ἑλιχθεῖσα λαιμοτόμῳ δεσποίνασ χειρὶ θάνοι ποινὰσ δοῦσ’ ἀντιπάλουσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • Εἰνοδία θύγατερ Δάματροσ, ἃ τῶν νυκτιπόλων ἐφόδων ἀνάσσεισ καὶ μεθαμερίων, ὅδωσον δυσθανάτων κρατήρων πλη‐ ρώματ’ ἐφ’ οἷσι πέμπει πότνια πότνι’ ἐμὰ χθονίασ Γοργοῦσ λαιμοτόμων ἀπὸ σταλαγμῶν τῷ τῶν Ἐρεχθεϊδᾶν δόμων ἐφαπτομένῳ· (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 11)
  • Πέργαμον δὲ Φρυγῶν πόλιν λαί̈νουσ περὶ πύργουσ κυκλώσασ Ἄρει φονίῳ, λαιμοτόμου κεφαλᾶσ σπάσασ <Πάριν Ἀτρεί̈δασ,> πέρσασ κατάκρασ πόλιν, θήσει κόρασ πολυκλαύτουσ δάμαρτά τε Πριάμου. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, epode1)

Synonyms

  1. with the throat cut

Derived

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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