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θηροκτόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηροκτόνος θηροκτόνον

Structure: θηροκτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. killing wild beasts

Examples

  • Ὦ παῖ Ζηνόσ, ὦ θηροκτόνε, τὸ λαμπρὸν εἱλίσσουσ’ ἐν εὐφρόνῃ φάοσ, δέξαι τὸ θῦμα τόδ’ ὅ γέ σοι δωρούμεθα στρατόσ τ’ Ἀχαιῶν Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ θ’ ὁμοῦ, ἄχραντον αἷμα καλλιπαρθένου δέρησ, καὶ δὸσ γενέσθαι πλοῦν νεῶν ἀπήμονα Τροίασ τε πέργαμ’ ἐξελεῖν ἡμᾶσ δορί. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue22)

Synonyms

  1. killing wild beasts

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

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