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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

  • ἀπορουμένησ δὲ τῆσ γυναικὸσ ὡσ οὐκ εἶχε δοῦναι, καὶ χρῆσαί τινὶ τῶν συνήθων λεγούσησ, λοιδορίαι τὸ πρῶτον ἦσαν, εἶτα δυσφημίαι, τῆσ γυναικὸσ ἐπαρωμένησ αὐτῷ τε κακὰσ ὁδοὺσ ἐκείνῳ καὶ τοῖσ πέμπουσιν, ὥστε καὶ τὸν Χλίδωνα πολὺ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἀναλώσαντα πρὸσ τούτοισ δι’ ὀργήν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὸ συμβεβηκὸσ οἰωνισάμενον, ἀφεῖναι τὴν ὁδὸν ὅλωσ καὶ πρὸσ ἄλλο τι τραπέσθαι. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 8 5:1)
  • ὅτ’ οὔτε λοιβῆσ ἡμὶν οὔτε θυμάτων παρῆν ἑκήλοισ προσθιγεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἀγρίαισ κατεῖχ’ ἀεὶ πᾶν στρατόπεδον δυσφημίαισ, βοῶν, στενάζων. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 1:2)
  • 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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