Ancient Greek edit

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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

 

Verb edit

σφᾰ́ζω (spházō)

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

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Further reading edit

  • 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