ἔκτεινεν (ekteinen)

ἔκτεινεν is an Ancient Greek form of κτείνω, meaning “to kill, slay”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 124 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.6: … , ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπίγραμμα ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐν Δελφοῖς ἀνδριάντος τοιοῦτον· τόνδε ποτʼ οὐχ ὁσίως παραβὰς μακάρων θέμιν ἁγνὴν ἔκτεινεν Περσῶν τοξοφόρων βασιλεύς, οὐ φανερῶς λόγχῃ φονίοις ἐν ἀγῶσι κρατήσας, ἀλλʼ ἀνδρὸς πίστει χρησάμενος δολίου. …

Euripides, Heracles 1289: Οὐχ οὗτος ὁ Διός, ὃς τέκνʼ ἔκτεινέν ποτε

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.