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κτείναντες (kteinantes)

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

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, The Trojan Women 1122: Δαναοὶ κτείναντες ἔχουσιν.

Procopius, De Bellis 1.15.8: οἵ τε βάρβαροι τῷ ἀπροσδοκήτῳ καταπλαγέντες οὐκέτι ἐς ἀλκὴν ἔβλεπον, ἀλλ’ ἔφευγον ὡς ἕκαστός πη ἐδύνατο. ἐνταῦθα Ῥωμαῖοι κτείναντές τε συχνοὺς καὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον ληισάμενοι αὐτίκα δὴ ὀπίσω ἀπήλαυνον.

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.