Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πατροκτόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πατροκτόνος πατροκτόνον

Structure: πατροκτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. murdering one's father, parricidal, of parricide, a father's murdering

Examples

  • ἔστιν δέ μοι πάλιν κατελθεῖν μήποθ’, ὡσ πατροκτόνῳ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:23)

Synonyms

  1. murdering one's father

Related

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

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