Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δυσφύλακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσφύλακτος δυσφύλακτον

Structure: δυσφυλακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to keep off or prevent

Examples

  • ἡ γὰρ χοῦσ προσπίπτουσα πολλὴ πληροῖ τὸν πόρον, ὥστε καὶ τὰσ ἐπικειμένασ νησῖδασ ἐξηπειροῦσθαι καὶ τενάγη ποιεῖν ἀνώμαλα καὶ δυσφύλακτα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 4 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. hard to keep off or prevent

Related

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

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