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τάμνειν (tamnein)

τάμνειν is an Ancient Greek form of τέμνω, meaning “cut; ravage”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 4: … ι καὶ φορεῖν· καὶ γὰρ τὸν Ἡσίοδον οἴεσθαι δεῖ λέγοντα μηδʼ ἀπὸ πεντόζοιο θεῶν ἐν δαιτὶ θαλείῃ αὖον ἀπὸ χλωροῦ τάμνειν αἴθωνι σιδήρῳ διδάσκειν ὅτι δεῖ καθαροὺς τῶν τοιούτων γενομένους ἑορτάζειν, οὐκ ἐν αὐταῖς ταῖς ἱερουργίαις χρ …

All forms of τέμνω (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.