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δύσεργος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσεργος δύσεργον

Structure: δυσεργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/rgw

Sense

  1. unfit for work

Examples

  • αὐτῷ δὲ τὸ μὲν ἀργεῖν καθόλου μετὰ τοσαύτησ δυνάμεωσ οὐκ ἐδόκει πρέπειν καὶ τὸ μάχεσθαι περιττὸν πρὸσ ἀλλήλων φθαρησομένοισ, βάλλεσθαι δὲ χώματα δύσεργον ἀπέφαινεν ὕλησ ἀπορίᾳ καὶ τὸ παραφυλάττειν τὰσ ἐξόδουσ δυσεργότερον· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 562:1)

Synonyms

  1. unfit for work

Related

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

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