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πατροφόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πατροφόνος πατροφόνον

Structure: πατροφον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Fe/nw

Sense

  1. parricidal, a parricide

Examples

  • ὅσαι δ’ ἄλλαι γίγνονται περὶ τελευτήσαντασ ταφαὶ εἴτε καὶ ἄταφοι πράξεισ, περὶ πατροφόνων καὶ ἱεροσύλων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων πάντων, εἰρημέναι ἐν τοῖσ ἔμπροσθεν κεῖνται διὰ νόμων, ὥστε σχεδὸν ἡ νομοθεσία τέλοσ ἂν ἡμῖν ἔχοι· (Plato, Laws, book 12 134:2)

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

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