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δύσκωφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσκωφος δύσκωφον

Structure: δυσκωφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. stone-deaf.

Examples

  • εἶπε δὲ Κύριοσ πρὸσ Μωυσῆν. τίσ ἔδωκε στόμα ἀνθρώπῳ, καὶ τίσ ἐποίησε δύσκωφον καὶ κωφόν, βλέποντα καὶ τυφλόν̣ οὐκ ἐγὼ ὁ Θεόσ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 4:11)
  • καλὸν δὲ καὶ ἔνια τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων μηδ’ εἰδέναι δοκεῖν, ἀλλὰ τὸ τοῦ γήρωσ ἀμβλυῶττον καὶ δύσκωφον ἐπὶ τὰ γιγνόμενα μεταφέρειν, ὡσ ἔνια τῶν πραττομένων ὁρῶντασ μὴ ὁρᾶν καὶ μὴ ἀκούειν ἀκούοντασ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 18 5:1)
  • τὴν δύσκωφον γραῖαν, Ὀνήσιμε, πρὸσ Διόσ, ἔξω ἔκβαλε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 741)
  • Δυσκώφῳ δύσκωφοσ ἐκρίνετο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2511)

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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