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δύσκωφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσκωφος δύσκωφον

Structure: δυσκωφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. stone-deaf.

Examples

  • ὡσ δ’ ὁ κώδων ὁ κατὰ τὴν ὀψοπωλίαν ἐψόφησε, καταλιπόντασ ἀπελθεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ ὄψον πλὴν ἑνὸσ δυσκώφου· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 2 41:6)

Synonyms

  1. stone-deaf

Related

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

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