The corpus record

ἀποκτείνω

apokteino

kill, slay

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Where it lives

Against Theomnestus 2 5 · 91.41/10k
Against Agoratus 30 · 62.62/10k
Against Aristocrates 71 · 46.45/10k
Against Theomnestus 1 6 · 40.27/10k
On A Wound By Premeditation 3 · 31.71/10k
Against Eratosthenes 14 · 28.93/10k
Against Nicomachus 4 · 21.28/10k
Hiero 11 · 18.45/10k
Against Simon 4 · 18.37/10k
Letter 9 2 · 17.51/10k
Lamentationes 4 · 17.17/10k
Apology 14 · 16.02/10k

Densest 12 of 152 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀποκτείνω · apokteinō — LSJ

kill, slay

stronger form of κτείνω, kill, slay, Ep., Ion., and the prevailing form in Att. (cf. ἀποθνῄσκω): once in A. Ag. 1250, never in S., freq. in E., Hec. 1244, al.

2 condemn to death, put to death

of judges, condemn to death, Antipho 5.92, Pl. Ap. 30d sq., etc.; also of the accuser, And. 4.37, X. HG 2.3.21, Th. 6.61; put to death, Hdt. 6.4: generally of the law, Pl. Prt. 325b.

metaph., τὸ σεμνὸν ὥς μʼ ἀ. τὸ σόν E. Hipp. 1064; σὺ μή μʼ ἀπόκτειν) Id. Or. 1027.

In the wild

ἀποκτείνειν · apokteinein Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1250
ἀποκτενῶ · apoktenō Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 258)
ἀποκτενεῖς · apokteneis Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 792)
ἀπέκτεινας · apekteinas Aristophanes, Birds 85 (DIORISIS sentence 76)
ἀποκτείνῃ · apokteinēi Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 800)
ἀποκτείνῃ · apokteinēi Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 800)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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