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δυσαής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσαής δυσαές

Structure: δυσαη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/hmi

Sense

  1. ill-blowing, stormy

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὸν δὲ ποιητὴν δυσαῆ μὲν ζέφυρον λέγειν τὸν ὑφ’ ἡμῶν καλούμενον ἀργέστην, λίγα δὲ πνέοντα ζέφυρον τὸν ὑφ’ ἡμῶν ζέφυρον, ἀργέστην δὲ νότον τὸν λευκόνοτον· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 42:7)
  • " τὸν γὰρ δυσαῆ ζέφυρον νῦν λέγει, ὃσ εἰώθε διασκιδνάναι τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ λευκονότου συναγόμενα ἀσθενῆ ὄντα, ἐπιθέτωσ τοῦ νότου νῦν ἀργέστου λεγομένου. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 42:10)

Synonyms

  1. ill-blowing

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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