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λαιμοτόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαιμοτόμος λαιμοτόμον

Structure: λαιμοτομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/mnw

Sense

  1. throat-cutting

Examples

  • 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. 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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