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δυσμαθία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσμαθία

Structure: δυσμαθι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from dusmaqh/s

Sense

  1. slowness at learning

Declension

First 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

  • ὅτου γὰρ ἂν ἢ τῶν ὀξέων καὶ τῶν ἁλυκῶν φλεγμάτων καὶ ὅσοι πικροὶ καὶ χολώδεισ χυμοὶ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα πλανηθέντεσ ἔξω μὲν μὴ λάβωσιν ἀναπνοήν, ἐντὸσ δὲ εἱλλόμενοι τὴν ἀφ’ αὑτῶν ἀτμίδα τῇ τῆσ ψυχῆσ φορᾷ συμμείξαντεσ ἀνακερασθῶσι, παντοδαπὰ νοσήματα ψυχῆσ ἐμποιοῦσι μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον καὶ ἐλάττω καὶ πλείω, πρόσ τε τοὺσ τρεῖσ τόπουσ ἐνεχθέντα τῆσ ψυχῆσ, πρὸσ ὃν ἂν ἕκαστ’ αὐτῶν προσπίπτῃ, ποικίλλει μὲν εἴδη δυσκολίασ καὶ δυσθυμίασ παντοδαπά, ποικίλλει δὲ θρασύτητόσ τε καὶ δειλίασ, ἔτι δὲ λήθησ ἅμα καὶ δυσμαθίασ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 455:2)

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

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