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δυσμεταχείριστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσμεταχείριστος δυσμεταχείριστον

Structure: δυσμεταχειριστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: metaxeiri/zw

Sense

  1. hard to manage: hard to attack

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

  • ἐδόκει δ’ ὅσα τοὺσ Κασσίου στρατιώτασ ᾤοντο βελτίουσ παρέξειν δυσμεταχείριστοι γὰρ ἦσαν, ἐν μὲν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ δι’ ἀναρχίαν θρασυνόμενοι, πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ διὰ τὴν ἧτταν ἀποδειλιῶντεσ. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 46 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to manage

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

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