σφάζω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • σφᾰ́δδω (spháddō) Boeotian
  • σφᾰ́ττω (spháttō)

Etymology

Unknown. No cognates outside Greek. Furnée connects φάσγανον (phásganon, sword) as φασγ-/σφαγ-, suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

Verb

σφᾰ́ζω • (spházō)

  1. to slay, slaughter, cut the throat
  2. to slaughter victims for sacrifice
  3. (in general) to slay, kill, assassinate

Inflection

Derived terms

  • ἀποσφᾰ́ζω (apospházō)
  • δῐᾰσφᾰ́ζω (diaspházō)
  • ἐπῐσφᾰ́ζω (epispházō)
  • κᾰτᾰσφᾰ́ζω (kataspházō)
  • προσφᾰ́ζω (prospházō)
  • σφᾰγεῖον (sphageîon)
  • σφᾰγεύς (sphageús)
  • σφᾰγή (sphagḗ)
  • σφᾰγῖτῐς (sphagîtis)
  • σφᾰ́γμᾰ (sphágma)
  • σφᾰ́γῐον (sphágion)
  • σφᾰ́γῐος (sphágios)
  • σφᾰγῐ́ς (sphagís)
  • σφᾰγῐστήρῐον (sphagistḗrion)

Further reading

  • σφάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • σφάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • σφάζω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • σφάζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • σφάζω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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