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ταυροσφάγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταυροσφάγος ταυροσφάγον

Structure: ταυροσφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/ttw

Sense

  1. bull-slaughtering, sacrificial

Examples

  • διδοὺσ δὲ τόνδε φράζ’ ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ βροτῶν κείνου πάροιθεν ἀμφιδύσεται χροί̈, μηδ’ ὄψεταί νιν μήτε φέγγοσ ἡλίου μήθ’ ἑρ́κοσ ἱερὸν μήτ’ ἐφέστιον σέλασ, πρὶν κεῖνοσ αὐτὸν φανερὸσ ἐμφανῶσ σταθεὶσ δείξῃ θεοῖσιν ἡμέρᾳ ταυροσφάγῳ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. bull-slaughtering

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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