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θηροφόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηροφόνος θηροφόνον

Structure: θηροφον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. killing wild beasts

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative θηροφόνος θηρόφονον
Genitive θηροφόνου θηροφόνου
Dative θηροφόνῳ θηροφόνῳ
Accusative θηροφόνον θηρόφονον
Vocative θηροφόνε θηρόφονον
DualN/A/V θηροφόνω θηροφόνω
G/D θηροφόνοιν θηροφόνοιν
PluralNominative θηροφόνοι θηρόφονα
Genitive θηροφόνων θηροφόνων
Dative θηροφόνοις θηροφόνοις
Accusative θηροφόνους θηρόφονα
Vocative θηροφόνοι θηρόφονα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective θηροφόνος θηροφόνου θηροφονότερος θηροφονοτέρου θηροφονότατος θηροφονοτάτου
Adverb θηροφόνως θηροφονότερον θηροφονότατα

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

  • τάν τε χρυσοκάρανον δόρκαν ποικιλόνωτον συλήτειραν ἀγρωστᾶν κτείνασ, θηροφόνον θεὰν Οἰνωᾶτιν ἀγάλλει· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, ephymnion 11)

Synonyms

  1. killing wild beasts

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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