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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromταυροκτόνος
- English todaytauroctony
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ταυροκτόνος (tauroktónos), from ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) + κτόνος (któnos, “killing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tauroctony
Today it means: A depiction (typically in relief or sculpture) of Mithras killing a bull; associated with the practice of Mithraism (as a cult) in the Roman Empire. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ταυροκτόνος