Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δύσφορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσφορος δύσφορον

Structure: δυσφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. hard to bear, heavy
  2. hard to bear, grievous, false, blinding, our troubles, sorrows, hard to bear
  3. oppressive
  4. moving with difficulty, slow of motion

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ οὔτε κλαίειν οὔτ’ ὀδύρεσθαι πρέπει, μὴ καὶ τεκνωθῇ δυσφορώτεροσ γόοσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:6)
  • ξύνεστι δὲ τοῦ θώρηκοσ βάροσ· πλεύμων γὰρ ἄπονοσ, ἄση, δυσφορίη, ἀποσιτίη, ἑσπέρῃ περίψυξισ, καὶ θέρμη ἐσ τὴν ἑώ· ἱδρὼσ ἄχρι θώρηκοσ τῆσ θέρμησ δυσφορώτεροσ· βηχὸσ ἀναγωγαὶ ποικίλαι, ὁκοίασ ἔλεξα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 149)

Synonyms

  1. hard to bear

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

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