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δύσκωφος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: dyskōphos

Principal Part: δύσκωφος δύσκωφον

Structure: δυσκωφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. stone-deaf.

Declension

First/Second 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

  • εἶπε δὲ Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν. τίς ἔδωκε στόμα ἀνθρώπῳ, καὶ τίς ἐποίησε δύσκωφον καὶ κωφόν, βλέποντα καὶ τυφλόν; οὐκ ἐγὼ ὁ Θεός; (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

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형용사

동사

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

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