Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λαιμοτόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαιμοτόμος λαιμοτόμον

Structure: λαιμοτομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/mnw

Sense

  1. throat-cutting

Examples

  • ἐσόψῃ, χειρὸσ ἀναρπαστὰν σᾶσ ἄπο λαιμότομόν τ’ Αἴδᾳ γᾶσ ὑποπεμπομέναν σκότον, ἔνθα νεκρῶν μέτα τάλαινα κείσομαι. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, antistrophe8)

Synonyms

  1. throat-cutting

Derived

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

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