The corpus record

παιδοφόνος

paidophonos

killing children

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Where it lives

Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

killing children, the slayer of my children, of having killed a son, of slain children

killing children, ἀνήρ the slayer of my children, Il. 24.506, cf. Porph. Abst. 3.19; λέαινα E. Med. 1407 (anap.); συμφορὴ π. the accident or calamity of having killed a son, Hdt. 7.190; π. αἷμα the blood of slain children, E. HF 1201 (lyr.).

In the wild

παιδοφόνον · paidophonon Euripides, Heracles 1199–1201
παιδοφόνος · paidophonos Herodotus, Histories 7.190.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8175)
παιδοφόνοιο · paidophonoio Iliad 24.506

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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