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δυσμαθής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσμαθής δυσμαθές

Structure: δυσμαθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: manqa/nw

Sense

  1. hard to learn, hard to know, difficulty of knowing
  2. slow at learning, so

Examples

  • παραβόλουσ καὶ κινήσεισ δυσεξελίκτουσ ἀνακυκλεῖν, εἷσ ὁ δυσμαθέστατοσ ἀκούων κακῶσ ἑκάστοτε καὶ κολαζόμενοσ πολλάκισ ὤφθη νυκτὸσ αὐτὸσ ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ πρὸσ τὴν σελήνην ἀναταττόμενοσ; (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 12 4:1)
  • πᾶσ ἄν μοι δοκεῖ, ἦ δ’ ὅσ, συγχωρῆσαι, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, ἐκ ταύτησ τῆσ μεθόδου, καὶ ὁ δυσμαθέστατοσ, ὅτι ὅλῳ καὶ παντὶ ὁμοιότερόν ἐστι ψυχὴ τῷ ἀεὶ ὡσαύτωσ ἔχοντι μᾶλλον ἢ τῷ μή. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 424:1)
  • καὶ ἑλίττων δὴ ταῦτα αὐτὰ ὅταν μὴ παύηται πολλὰσ μὲν νύκτασ, πολλὰσ δὲ ἡμέρασ ἃσ οὐρανόσ, οὐδέποτε παύεται διδάσκων ἀνθρώπουσ ἕν τε καὶ δύο, πρὶν ἂν καὶ ὁ δυσμαθέστατοσ ἱκανῶσ μάθῃ ἀριθμεῖν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 42:1)

Synonyms

  1. slow at learning

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

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