Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μητροκτόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μητροκτόνος μητροκτόνον

Structure: μητροκτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. killing one's mother, matricidal, of a mother's murder
  2. a matricide

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ τοῦ μητροκτόνου τεχνάσματ’ ἐστὶ ταῦτα καὶ πολὺσ γέλωσ. (Euripides, episode, iambic4)
  • ἐνθένδε δ’ ἐλθὼν τὴν Ἀθηναίων πόλιν δίκην ὑπόσχεσ αἵματοσ μητροκτόνου Εὐμενίσι τρισσαῖσ· (Euripides, episode, iambic 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. killing one's mother

  2. a matricide

Related

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

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