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δυσκολία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσκολία

Structure: δυσκολι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: du/skolos

Sense

  1. discontent, peevishness
  2. difficulty

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

  • βασιλεύων ἄνθρωπον ὑποκριτὴν ἀπὸ δυσκολίασ λαοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 34:30)
  • ὑπὸ δυσκολίασ δ’ ἅπασι τιμῶν τὴν μακρὰν ὥσπερ μέλιττ’ ἢ βομβυλιὸσ εἰσέρχεται ὑπὸ τοῖσ ὄνυξι κηρὸν ἀναπεπλασμένοσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 3:12)
  • ἤδη δ’ εἶναι τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ ἤπιον αὐτόν, τοὺσ φεύγοντάσ τ’ ἐλεεῖν μᾶλλον τῶν γραψαμένων κἀπιδακρύειν ἀντιβολούντων, καὶ παυσάμενον τῆσ δυσκολίασ ἀπὸ τῆσ ὀργῆσ τὴν ἀκαλήφην ἀφελέσθαι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Lyric-Scene, anapests2)
  • ἡ δ’ εὐκολία τοῖσ μὲν βοηθεῖ τὰ δ’ ἐπικοσμεῖ τὰ δὲ συνηδύνει, περιγίγνεται δὲ τῇ πραότητι καὶ θυμοῦ καὶ δυσκολίασ ἁπάσησ· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 14 3:1)
  • τὰσ δὲ προσούσασ δυσκολίασ, "ἐὰν μὴ μανιῶν ἢ γηρῶν ἢ γυναικὶ πιθόμενοσ," ἀφεῖλον ὅπωσ μὴ ᾖ τοῖσ συκοφάνταισ ἔφοδοσ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 35 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. difficulty

Related

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

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