ἀποτέμνω,
Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, and Doric dialect ἀπο-τάμνω, future -τεμῶ: aorist 2 Ionic dialect and Doric dialect -έταμον, Attic dialect -έτεμον:—passive, future ἀποτμηθήσομαι[[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.26] Refs 5th c.BC+]: —cut off, sever, παρηορίας ἀπέταμνε[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.87; ἀπὸ στομάχους ἀρνῶν τάμε 3.292, etc.; χρῶτ᾽ ἀπὸ πάντα καὶ ἄρθρα τεμῶ χερί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1207; τὴν κεφαλήν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.39, compare “IG” 4.952.2 (Epid.); τὰ σκέλεα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.40; τὴν ῥὶνα καὶ τὰ ὦτα [prev. author] 3.154, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; amputate, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.54, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 69] Refs 5th c.BC+]; excise, [[ [prev. author] “Haem.” 2, compare 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Eup.” 1.12 (_passive_)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; decapitate, ἀλεκτρυόνα[[ “PMag.Par.” 1.38] Refs]:—passive, to be cut off, τὰ ἀκρωτήρια ἀποτμηθήσεσθαι[[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.26; τὴν γλῶτταν ἀποτμηθείς 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.168 (assuming variant; ἐκτμ. 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus); τὴν κεφαλήν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nav.” 33; τὸν τράχηλον 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.2.27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 cut off, divide, sever, in a geographical sense, ὁ Ἅλυς.. ἀποτάμνει σχεδὸν πάντα τῆς Ἀσίης[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.72] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄρεα ὑψηλὰ ἀ. [τὴν χώρην] [[ [prev. author] 4.25: mathematically, ἥμισυ.. ἡ γραμμὴ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 85a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 849a37] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 42b] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, of troops, to be cut off from the main body, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.29. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]