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τεκνοφόνος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: teknophonos

Principal Part: τεκνοφόνος τεκνοφόνον

Structure: τεκνοφον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Φένω

Sense

  1. child-murdering.

Examples

  • ἢ γὰρ τεκνοφόνους τελετὰς ἢ κρύφια μυστήρια ἢ ἐμμανεῖς ἐξ ἄλλων θεσμῶν κώμους ἄγοντες, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:23)

Synonyms

  1. child-murdering

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

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