ἔκτειναν (ekteinan)

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

It can also be a form of ἐκτείνω, “stretch out”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 113 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.74.3: … θηναίους ἄνδρας ὡς ἑκατόν, καὶ τούτων πέρι ἀναγκάσαντες τὸν δῆμον ψῆφον φανερὰν διενεγκεῖν, ὡς κατεγνώσθησαν, ἔκτειναν, καὶ ἐς ὀλιγαρχίαν τὰ μάλιστα κατέστησαν τὴν πόλιν.

Plutarch, Antony 45.3: … λαβόντες ἐγγὺς προσέμιξαν. οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι συναλαλάξαντες ἐξαίφνης ἀνέθορον, καὶ τοῖς ὑσσοῖς παίοντες ἐκ χειρὸς ἔκτεινάν τε τοὺς πρώτους καὶ τροπὴν ἔθεντο τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων. ἐγίνετο δὲ ταῦτα καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις ἡμέραις ἐπὶ μικρὸν ἀνυό …

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.