Where does “πατροκτόνος” come from?

πατροκτόνος (Greek) comes from Greek -κτόνος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

πατροκτόνος (Greek): patricidal; patricide

Definitions

  1. patricidal; patricide

Ancestry of “πατροκτόνος”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Greek-κτόνοςπατέρας + API → πατροκτόνος; αδελφός + API →...
2Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
3Proto-Hellenic*-os—
4Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Ancient Greek -ός →Every word from Greek -κτόνος →