ἐκτείνας (ekteinas)

ἐκτείνας is an Ancient Greek form of κτείνω, meaning “to kill, slay”.

It can also be a form of ἐκτείνω, “stretch out”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.34: … ος, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον, ἔφη, ἔσῃ ἐν τῷ πανδοκείῳ. ξένων δέ ποτε θεάσασθαι θελόντων Δημοσθένην, τὸν μέσον δάκτυλον ἐκτείνας, οὗτος ὑμῖν, ἔφη, ἐστὶν ὁ Ἀθηναίων δημαγωγός.

Euripides, Hippolytus 1357: διά μ’ ἔφθειρας, κατὰ δ’ ἔκτεινας.

Appianus of Alexandria, Mithridatic Wars 8.58: … ετράρχας, οὓς ὁμοδιαίτους ἔχων ἀπέκτεινας, ἢ τὸ τῶν Ἰταλιωτῶν γένος, οὓς μιᾶς ἡμέρας σὺν βρέφεσι καὶ μητράσιν ἔκτεινάς τε καὶ κατεπόντωσας, οὐκ ἀποσχόμενος οὐδὲ τῶν ἐς τὰ ἱερὰ συμφυγόντων. ὃ πόσην μὲν ὠμότητά σου, πόσην δὲ ἀσέβε …

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.