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δύσκριτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσκριτος δύσκριτον

Structure: δυσκριτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to discern or interpret, doubtfully, darkly, in doubt

Examples

  • Τῆσ μέντοι φρονήσιοσ οὐδετέρῳ μέτεστιν, ἀλλὰ πάντων τουτέων ὁ ἐγκέφαλοσ αἴτιόσ ἐστιν‧ ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ τῆσ φρονήσιοσ τοῦ ἠέροσ πρῶτοσ αἰσθάνεται τῶν ἐν τῷ σώματι ἐνεόντων, οὕτω καὶ ἤν τισ μεταβολὴ ἰσχυροτέρη γένηται ἐν τῷ ἠέρι ὑπὸ τῶν ὡρων, καὶ αὐτὸσ ἑωυτοῦ διάφοροσ γίνηται ὁ ἠὴρ, ὁ ἐγκέφαλοσ πρῶτοσ αἰσθάνεται‧ διὸ καὶ τὰ νουσήματα ἐσ αὐτὸν ἐμπίπτειν φημὶ ὀξύτατα καὶ μέγιστα καὶ θανατωδέστατα καὶ δυσκριτώτατα τοῖσιν ἀπείροισιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 17.4)

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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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