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κτανών (ktanon)

κτανών is an Ancient Greek form of κτείνω, meaning “to kill, slay”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 488: κτανὼν ἄρ’ ἥξεις ἢ θανὼν αὐτοῦ μενεῖς.

Euripides, Hecuba 713: οἴμοι, τί λέξεις; χρυσὸν ὡς ἔχοι κτανών;

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.