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δυσκρασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσκρασία

Structure: δυσκρασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from du/skra_tos

Sense

  1. bad temperament

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

  • "μανία γὰρ ἡ μὲν ἀπὸ σώματοσ ἐπὶ ψυχὴν ἀνεσταλμένη δυσκρασίαισ τισὶν ἢ συμμίξεσιν ἢ πνεύματοσ βλαβεροῦ περιφερομένου τραχεῖα καὶ χαλεπὴ καὶ νοσώδησ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 2:3)
  • ψυχῆσ τὸ παθητικὸν καὶ τιτανικὸν καὶ ἄλογον καὶ ἔμπληκτον τοῦ δὲ σωματικοῦ τὸ ἐπίκηρον καὶ νοσῶδεσ καὶ ταρακτικὸν ἀωρίαισ καὶ δυσκρασίαισ, καὶ κρύψεσιν ἡλίου καὶ ἀφανισμοῖσ σελήνησ, οἱο͂ν ἐκδρομαὶ καὶ ἀφανισμοὶ Τυφῶνοσ καὶ τοὔνομα κατηγορεῖ τὸ Σήθ, ᾧ τὸν Τυφῶνα καλοῦσι· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 49 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. bad temperament

Related

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

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