1. ξενο-φόνος · xeno-phonos
murdering strangers
murdering strangers, ἄνδρες Pl. Ep. 336d ; μάχαιρα Nonn. D. 9.41.
II to murderers of strangers
ξ. τιμαί honour paid to murderers of strangers, E. IT 776.
The corpus record
ξενο-φόνος
xenophonos
murdering strangers
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Where it lives
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
What it meant — LSJ
2. ξενόφων-ος · xenophōn-os
speaking, sounding strange
speaking or sounding strange, rejected by Poll. 2.113.
In the wild
- ξενοφόνους · xenophonous Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 439)
- ξενοφόνων · xenophonōn Plato, Epistles 336
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.