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κτανεῖν (ktanein)

κτανεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of κτείνω, meaning “to kill, slay”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 289: κτανεῖν βοράν τε δυσσεβῆ θέσθαι γνάθοις·

All forms of κτείνω (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.