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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

  • καὶ μικρὸν ὅσον διαφέρουσα τῶν μονίμων οἰκοδομημάτων, φανῆναι πρὸσ ἐπίδειξιν, οὐ χρείαν, ἐπισφαλῶσ καὶ δυσέργωσ ἐκινήθη. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 43 5:2)

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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