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θανόντα (thanonta)

θανόντα is an Ancient Greek form of θνήσκω, meaning “die, be dying”. It is the aorist active participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.4: … δὲ Λίνον τελευτῆσαι ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ τοξευθέντα ὑπʼ Ἀπόλλωνος, καὶ αὐτῷ ἐπιγεγράφθαι· ἥδε Λίνον Θηβαῖον ἐδέξατο γαῖα θανόντα, Μούσης Οὐρανίης υἱὸν ἐϋστεφάνου. καὶ ὧδε μὲν ἀφʼ Ἑλλήνων ἦρξε φιλοσοφία, ἧς καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ ὄνομα τὴν βάρβαρον ἀ …

All forms of θνήσκω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.