ἐξολοθρεύω
Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
German (Pape)
[Seite 886] ganz verheeren, zerstören, LXX., Philo.
French (Bailly abrégé)
anéantir, exterminer.
Étymologie: ἐξ, ὀλοθρεύω.
English (Strong)
from ἐκ and ὀλοθρεύω; to extirpate: destroy.
English (Thayer)
and (according to the reading best attested by the oldest manuscripts of the Sept. and received by L T Tr WH (see ὀλοθρεύω)) ἐξολεθρεύω: future passive ἐξολοθρευθήσομαι; to destroy out of its place, destroy utterly, to extirpate: ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ, Sept., and in the O. T. Apocrypha, and in Test xii. Patr.; Josephus, Antiquities 8,11, 1; 11,6, 6; hardly in native Greek writings.)
Greek Monolingual
(AM ἐξολοθρεύω)
1. προκαλώ όλεθρο, καταστρέφω τελείως
2. εξοντώνω, θανατώνω.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < εξ + ολοθρεύω (< ολεθρεύω με αφομοίωση < όλεθρος < όλλυμι)].
