kill, slay
kill, slay, A. Th. 630 (lyr.), S. l.c., Timocr. 1.9, Theoc. l.c.: once in X., Cyr. 4.2.24 (nisi leg. κατακ-, q. v.).
The corpus record
καίνω
kaino
kill, slay
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Heracles 7 · 8.94/10k
- Electra 4 · 5.29/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
- Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
- Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 3 · 2.9/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
- Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- καίνων · kainōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1562
- καίνειν · kainein Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 886
- ἔκανες · ekanes Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 930
- κάνοι · kanoi Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 629–630
- ἔκανες · ekanes Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 958–960
- κανὼν · kanōn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1113a (DIORISIS sentence 770)
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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.