ἈΔΕΛΦΟΚΤΟΝΩ, ἀδελφοκτονω
ADELPHOKTONŌ, adelphoktonō
Sounds Like: ah-del-fok-to-NO
Translations: I commit fratricide, I murder my brother, I kill my brother
From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΟΚΤΟΝΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from 'ἀδελφός' (brother) and 'κτείνω' (to kill). It means to commit fratricide or to kill one's brother. It describes the act of a person murdering their own sibling. For example, 'I kill my brother' or 'I commit fratricide'.
Inflection: First Person, Singular, Present, Active, Indicative
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:26
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 4:75
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΚΤΟΝΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΔΕΛΦΟΚΤΟΝΕΙΝ — to commit fratricide, to murder a brother, to kill a brother
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