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δύσκολος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσκολος δύσκολον

Structure: δυσκολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: opp. to eu)/kolos

Sense

  1. hard to satisfy with food;, hard to please, discontented, fretful, peevish, to be peevish
  2. troublesome, harassing, unpleasant, difficult, hardly, with difficulty

Examples

  • ὡσ δύσκολον τὸ γῆρασ ἀνθρώποισ ἔφυ ἔν τ’ ὄμμασι σκυθρωπόν. (Euripides, episode 3:5)
  • κοὐκέτ’ ἄν μ’ εὑρ́οισ δικαστὴν δριμὺν οὐδὲ δύσκολον, οὐδὲ τοὺσ τρόπουσ γε δήπου σκληρὸν ὥσπερ καὶ πρὸ τοῦ, ἀλλ’ ἁπαλὸν ἄν μ’ ἴδοισ καὶ πολὺ νεώτερον, ἀπαλλαγέντα πραγμάτων. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, strophe 13)
  • νῷν γάρ ἐστι δεσπότησ ἄγροικοσ ὀργὴν κυαμοτρὼξ ἀκράχολοσ, Δῆμοσ πυκνίτησ, δύσκολον γερόντιον ὑπόκωφον. (Aristotle, Prologue 2:2)
  • τοῦτ’ ἦν δύσκολον· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Episode 1:16)
  • τὸ γὰρ υἵδιον τηρεῖ με, κἄστι δύσκολον κἄλλωσ κυμινοπριστοκαρδαμογλύφον. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, lyric 2:11)

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

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