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θείνω

theino

strike, dashed, slay

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Where it lives

  • Aggaeus 1 · 10.99/10k
  • Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
  • Suppliants 4 · 5.69/10k
  • 1 John 1 · 4.7/10k
  • Iliad 46 · 4.13/10k
  • Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
  • Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
  • Odyssey 19 · 2.19/10k
  • Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
  • Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

strike, dashed

poet. word, strike, τινα Od. 18.63; ξίφεσι 22.443; φασγάνῳ αὐχένα θείνας Il. 20.481; μάστιγι . . θείνων 17.430; [τόξοισι] ἔθεινε παρʼ οὔατα 21.491:—Pass., 1.588; θεινόμεναι βουπλῆγι 6.135; ἄορι 10.484; θεινομένου . . πρὸς οὔδεϊ dashed to earth, Od. 9.459; later σκάπτῳ θενών τινα Pi. O. 7.28; ῥαιστῆρι A. Pr. 56, cf. 76; τινὰ διʼ ἀσπίδος E. Heracl. 738; ἰτέαν εἰς μέσην Id. Cyc. 7; τῷ σκέλει θένε τὴν πέτραν Ar. Av. 54; τῷ πρωκτῷ θενὼν τὴν κιγκλίδʼ Id. Eq. 640; ποσσὶ θ. σκέλος, of a wrestler, Theoc.

2

metaph., θείνει δʼ ὀνείδει μάντιν Id. Th. 382.

3

intr., of corpses, θ. ἐπʼ ἀκτᾶς Id. Pers. 966.

II slay, slain

to the same Verb, but only with the meaning slay, belong the foll. forms formerly referred to a pres. *φένω, viz.: aor. 2 ἔπεφνον Il. 21.55, Pi. P. 10.46, B. 17.19, S. OT 1497; Ep. and Lyr. πέφνον Il. 13.363, B. 8.13; subj. πέφνῃς, ῃ, Od. 22.346, Il. 20.172; inf. πεφνέμεν 6.180; part. πεφνών 16.827 (parox. acc. to Aristarch., as if from a pres. πέφνω, which is found in late Ep., Opp. H. 2.133): from the short form φᾰ (for φṇ) come pf. Pass. 3 sg. πέφαται Il. 15.140, al.; 3 pl. πέφανται 5.531; in

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θείνω (scan pp. 583-584; entry #2532).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θείνω (scan p. 440; entry #3096).

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