λιμοκτονία

Ancient Greek

From λιμός (limós) +‎ κτείνω (kteínō) +‎ -ία (-ía), equivalent to λιμοκτόνος (limoktónos) +‎ -ία (-ía).

λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ • (līmoktonĭ́ā) f (genitive λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

fasting
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 354a:
  οὐκοῦν πάλιν ἂν αὐτοὺς τὸ ἐναντίον εἰ ἐροίμεθα· ὦ ἄνθρωποι οἱ λέγοντες αὖ ἀγαθὰ ἀνιαρὰ εἶναι, ἆρα οὐ τὰ τοιάδε λέγετε, οἷον τά τε γυμνάσια καὶ τὰς στρατείας καὶ τὰς ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν θεραπείας τὰς διὰ καύσεών τε καὶ τομῶν καὶ φαρμακειῶν καὶ λιμοκτονιῶν γιγνομένας, ὅτι ταῦτα ἀγαθὰ μέν ἐστιν, ἀνιαρὰ δέ; φαῖεν ἄν;
  oukoûn pálin àn autoùs tò enantíon ei eroímetha; ô ánthrōpoi hoi légontes aû agathà aniarà eînai, âra ou tà toiáde légete, hoîon tá te gumnásia kaì tàs strateías kaì tàs hupò tôn iatrôn therapeías tàs dià kaúseṓn te kaì tomôn kaì pharmakeiôn kaì limoktoniôn gignoménas, hóti taûta agathà mén estin, aniarà dé? phaîen án?
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
a killing by hunger, death from starvation

First declension of ἡ λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ hē līmoktonĭ́ā	τὼ λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ tṑ līmoktonĭ́ā	αἱ λῑμοκτονῐ́αι hai līmoktonĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱς tês līmoktonĭ́ās	τοῖν λῑμοκτονῐ́αιν toîn līmoktonĭ́ain	τῶν λῑμοκτονῐῶν tôn līmoktonĭôn
Dative	τῇ λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾳ tēî līmoktonĭ́āi	τοῖν λῑμοκτονῐ́αιν toîn līmoktonĭ́ain	ταῖς λῑμοκτονῐ́αις taîs līmoktonĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱν tḕn līmoktonĭ́ān	τὼ λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ tṑ līmoktonĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s līmoktonĭ́ās
Vocative	λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ līmoktonĭ́ā	λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ līmoktonĭ́ā	λῑμοκτονῐ́αι līmoktonĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“λιμοκτονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“λιμοκτονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
λιμοκτονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
λιμοκτονία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Ancient Greek λιμοκτονία (limoktonía). By surface analysis, ‎λιμός (‎limós) +‎ -κτονία (-ktonía).

λιμοκτονία • (limoktonía) f

Collins Greek-English Dictionary‎^[1] (quotation in English; overall work in English), Collins, 2003, →ISBN, page 400
English-Greek Greek-English Dictionary‎^[2] (quotation in English; overall work in English), Michalē Siderē, 1996, →ISBN, page 614
λιμοκτονία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language