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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

  • 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)

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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