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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative δυσφημία δυσφημίᾱ δυσφημίαι
Genitive δυσφημίᾱς δυσφημίαιν δυσφημιῶν
Dative δυσφημίᾱͅ δυσφημίαιν δυσφημίαις
Accusative δυσφημίᾱν δυσφημίᾱ δυσφημίᾱς
Vocative δυσφημίᾱ δυσφημίᾱ δυσφημίαι

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

  • "ἀγανακτοῦντοσ ἐμοῦ καὶ κακῶσ αὐτὴν λέγοντοσ, τρέπεται πρὸσ δυσφημίασ ἀποτροπαίουσ, ἐπαρωμένη κακὰσ ὁδοὺσ κακὰσ δ’ ἐπανόδουσ· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 18 7:5)
  • ὁ δὲ Ξενοκράτησ καὶ τῶν ἡμερῶν τὰσ ἀποφράδασ καὶ τῶν ἑορτῶν, ὅσαι πληγάσ τινασ ἢ κοπετοὺσ ἢ νηστείασ ἢ δυσφημίασ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 26 5:1)
  • ταχὺ δὲ αὖ πάλιν συστέλλεται καὶ ταπεινοῦται καὶ φθίνει, ψόγου τινὸσ προσπεσόντοσ ἢ δυσφημίασ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 149:2)
  • εἰ δή τισ ὑπῆρχε τοιαύτη πόλισ, ὥστε ἀεὶ θρηνούντων ἐν αὐτῇ ἀκούειν καὶ μηδένα δύνασθαι δίχα τῆσ δυσφημίασ ταύτησ προελθεῖν μηδὲ ἐπ’ ὀλίγον, πρὸσ τοῦ Διὸσ ἔστιν ὅστισ ἂν ἡδέωσ ἐπεδήμησεν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 45:1)
  • καὶ ἀτιμίασ, διὰ δυσφημίασ καὶ εὐφημίασ· (PROS KORINQIOUS B, chapter 1 120:1)

Synonyms

  1. ill language

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

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