κτείνειν (kteinein)

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

Found 162 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.132.5: … ήσῃ, μὴ ἐπιγνῷ, λύει τὰς ἐπιστολάς, ἐν αἷς ὑπονοήσας τι τοιοῦτον προσεπεστάλθαι καὶ αὑτὸν ηὗρεν ἐγγεγραμμένον κτείνειν.

Procopius, De Bellis 3.23.6: τούτους δὲ τοὺς ἄνδρας ʽοὐ γὰρ οἷοί τε ἦσαν οἱ τοῦ χωρίου γεωργοὶ κτείνειν’ ἀγγέλλουσι τῷ Γελίμερι ἐνταῦθα εἶναι.

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.