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

  • τοῖσ μὲν ὁπλίταισ τὰσ ὁρμὰσ αὐτῶν ἐκκλίνειν ἐκέλευσεν καὶ μὴ συμπλέκεσθαι θανατῶσιν ἀνθρώποισ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 258:1)
  • ὥστε χρῆναι διαφθειρομένων χερσὶν οἰκείαισ τῶν ἐχθρῶν καὶ τῷ μεγίστῳ κακῷ στάσει χρωμένων θεατὰσ μᾶλλον αὐτοὺσ ἀποκαθῆσθαι τῶν κινδύνων ἢ θανατῶσιν ἀνθρώποισ καὶ λελυσσηκόσιν κατ’ ἀλλήλων χεῖρα μίσγειν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 420:1)

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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