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δυσήκεστος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: dysēkestos

Principal Part: δυσήκεστος δυσήκεστον

Structure: δυσηκεστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to heal or cure

Examples

  • τόνδε σὺ μὲν παίδων κρύφιον γόνον Ἄρεϊ τίκτεις, Ῥῆμόν τε ξυνῶν καὶ Ῥωμύλον λεχέων, θὴρ δὲ λύκαιν ἄνδρωσεν ὑπὸ σπήλυγγι τιθηνός, οἵ σε δυσηκέστων ἡρ´πασαν ἐκ καμάτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 3, chapter 194)

Synonyms

  1. hard to heal or cure

Similar forms

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

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