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κτεῖναι (kteinai)

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

Found 133 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 25.205: Εὐρυσθεύς, κτεῖναι δέ μʼ ἐφίετο θηρίον αἰνόν.

Euripides, Rhesus 449: κτεῖναί τʼ Ἀχαιούς· θατέρᾳ δʼ ἀπʼ Ἰλίου

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.