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δυσφημία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσφημία

Structure: δυσφημι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from dusfhme/w

Sense

  1. ill language, words of ill omen

Declension

First 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

  • ὅτ’ οὔτε λοιβῆσ ἡμὶν οὔτε θυμάτων παρῆν ἑκήλοισ προσθιγεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἀγρίαισ κατεῖχ’ ἀεὶ πᾶν στρατόπεδον δυσφημίαισ, βοῶν, στενάζων. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. ill language

Related

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

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