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κτείνω , Ep. subj.
A.“κτείνωμι” Od.19.490; Aeol. κτέννω Hdn.Gr.2.303 (and aor. 1 part. “κτένναις” Alc.33.5), but “κταίνω” Id.140 acc. to Eust.1648.5 (leg. Ἀλκμᾶνι); Ep. Iterat. “κτείνεσκε” Il.24.393: fut. κτενῶ, Ep. “κτενέω” Od.16.404, -έεις Il.22.13, -έει ib.124, al. (“κτενεῖ” 15.65, 68), part. κτανέοντα only 18.309 (but in compos. “κατα-κτανέουσιν” 6.409): aor. 1 “ἔκτεινα” 19.296, etc.: aor. 2 “ἔκτα^νον” 2.701, etc.: pf.not found un compounded: plpf. “ἀπ-εκτονήκειν” Plu.Tim.16:—Pass., fut. κτανθήσομαι Sch.T Il.14.481: Ep. 3pl. aor. “ἔκτα^θεν” Il.11.691, Od.4.537, “κτάθεν” Q.S.1.812; “ἐκτάνθην” AP14.32, (ἀπ-) LXX 1 Ma.2.9, Ev.Marc.8.31, D.C.65.4: aor. 2 ἀπ-εκτάνην [α^] Gal.14.284: pf. ἐκτάνθαι ῾ἀπ-) Plb.7.7.4:—Hom.also uses non-thematic forms, 3sg., 1 and 3pl. aor. “ἔκτα^” Od.11.410, al. (κατ- Il.15.432), “ἔκτα^μεν” Od.12.375, “ἔκτα^ν” 19.276, Il.10.526 (ἔκτα also in S.Tr.38, E.HF423 (lyr., with α_)); 1pl. subj. “κτέωμεν” Od.22.216; inf. κτάμεν （κατα-) Il.9.458, κτάμεναι [α^] 5.301, al.; part. κτάς （κατα-) 22.323, also in Trag., A. Th. 965 (lyr.), E.IT715: aor. Med. in pass. sense, 3sg. “ἀπ-έκτα^το” Il.15.437; inf. κτάσθαι ib.558 (prob. in pass. sense); part. “κτάμενος” 22.75, Hes.Op.541, Pi.Fr.203 codd., A.Pers.923 (lyr.), Cratin.95:—kill, slay, freq. in Poets, also in early Att., Lex Draconis in IG12.115.20; but in Prose and Com. ἀποκτείνω prevailed; usu. of men, less freq. of slayingan animal, as Il.15.587, Od.12.375, 19.543, Ar.Av.1063 (lyr.); Οὖτίς με κτείνει δόλῳ seeks to kill me, Od.9.408, cf. S.OC993; ὁ κτανών the slayer, murderer, A.Eu.422; “οἱ κτανόντες” Id.Ch.41 (lyr.), 144, etc.
2. put to death, Th.1.132, Arist.HA625a16, al.; esp. in legal language, “εἰ . . ἐν δίκῃ ἔκτεινεν ὁ κτείνας” Pl.Euthphr.4b, cf. Prt. 322d, Lg.871e, al., Lys.10.11.
3. of things, ὥστε καὶ κτείνειν so as to be fatal, of the plague, Th.2.51 (so in Pass., εὖτ᾽ ἂν ὑπὸ τοῦ κακοῦ κτεινέωνται when the disease is proceeding towards a fatal termination, Aret.SD1.5); “τὰ φύλλα [ἀποκύνου] . . κτείνει κύνας” Dsc.4.80.
4. put an end to, “θέρος [νοῦσον] κτείνει” Aret.SD1.16. (Pass. in Hom. and Ion. Prose, Il.11.668, 14.60, Od.11.413, Hdt.4.3, etc.; but Trag. almost always used θνῄσκω or καταθνῄσκω as the Pass., Com. Poets and Prose writers ἀποθνῄσκω.) (Cf. Skt. k[snull ]atás 'wounded'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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