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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

  • οἱ μὲν πρέσβεισ οὐδὲν ἔτι πρὸσ ταῦτα ἀντειπόντεσ ἀπηλλάττοντο καὶ τὰ παρὰ τῶν ἀποστατῶν τοῖσ πατρικίοισ ἐδήλωσαν, ἡ δὲ πόλισ, ἐπειδὴ τὰσ ἀποκρίσεισ ταύτασ ἔλαβεν, ἐν ταραχαῖσ καὶ δείμασι πολλῷ χαλεπωτέροισ ἢ πρόσθεν ἐγένετο, καὶ οὔτε ἡ βουλὴ πόρον εὑρεῖν οἱά τε ἦν οὔτ’ ἀναβολάσ, δυσφημιῶν δὲ καὶ κατηγοριῶν, ἃσ οἱ προεστηκότεσ αὐτῆσ ἐποιοῦντο κατ’. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 48 4:1)

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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