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δύσληπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσληπτος δύσληπτον

Structure: δυσληπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lamba/nw

Sense

  1. hard to catch

Examples

  • εἶδεσ δὲ καὶ ἄλλο τι ἐν τῷ γυμνασίῳ χαλκοῦν περιφερέσ, ἀσπίδι μικρᾷ ἐοικὸσ ὄχανον οὐκ ἐχούσῃ οὐδὲ τελαμῶνασ, καὶ ἐπειράθησ γε αὐτοῦ κειμένου ἐν τῷ μέσῳ καὶ ἐδόκει σοι βαρὺ καὶ δύσληπτον ὑπὸ λειότητοσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 27:5)
  • οὕτω δὲ καὶ οἱ ποταμοὶ καὶ μάλιστα ὁ Μαίανδροσ τὰ μὲν διορίζοντεσ τῶν ἐθνῶν, δι’ ὧν δὲ μέσοι φερόμενοι δύσληπτον ποιοῦσι τἀκριβέσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 20:4)

Synonyms

  1. hard to catch

Related

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

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