Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

θανάτωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θανάτωσις θανάτωσεως

Structure: θανατωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from qanato/w

Sense

  1. a putting to death

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ γάρ πωσ φεύγουσι τὴν αὐγήν· σκότοσ δὲ πρηο̈́νει τουτέοισι τὴν νοῦσον· οὐ δὲ ἐσιδεῖν τι ἢ ἀκοῦσαι τερπνὸν εὔφοροι · κάκοδμοι τὴν ὄσφρησιν, καὶ οὔτε τι εὐῶδεσ αὐτέουσ τέρπει, ἐκτρέπονται δὲ καὶ τὰ κακώδεα · ἄχθονται τῷ βίῳ, θανατῶσι ὥνθρωποι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 16)
  • οἶμαι γὰρ ἂν τοὺσ πολλοὺσ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἀκούσαντασ δοκεῖν εὖ πάνυ εἰρῆσθαι εἰσ τοὺσ φιλοσοφοῦντασ ‐ καὶ συμφάναι ἂν τοὺσ μὲν παρ’ ἡμῖν ἀνθρώπουσ καὶ πάνυ ‐ ὅτι τῷ ὄντι οἱ φιλοσοφοῦντεσ θανατῶσι, καὶ σφᾶσ γε οὐ λελήθασιν ὅτι ἄξιοί εἰσιν τοῦτο πάσχειν. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 75:1)
  • λέληθεν γὰρ αὐτοὺσ ᾗ τε θανατῶσι καὶ ᾗ ἄξιοί εἰσιν θανάτου καὶ οἱού θανάτου οἱ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ φιλόσοφοι. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 76:2)

Synonyms

  1. a putting to death

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

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