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νεόκτονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεόκτονος νεόκτονον

Structure: νεοκτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. lately or just killed

Examples

  • ἦ μὰν ἀνόμοιά γε δᾴοισιν ἐν θερμῷ χροὶ̈ ἕλκεα ῥῆξαν πελεμιζόμενοι ὑπ’ ἀλεξιμβρότῳ λόγχᾳ, τὰ μὲν ἀμφ’ Ἀχιλεῖ νεοκτόνῳ, ἄλλων τε μόχθων ἐν πολυφθόροισ ἁμέραισ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 8 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. lately or just killed

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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