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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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τοξευθεὶσ ὁ ἵπποσ τὸν Μασίστιον ἀπέρριψε καὶ πεσὼν ὑπὸ βάρουσ τῶν ὅπλων αὐτόσ τε δυσκίνητοσ ἦν ἀναφέρειν καὶ τοῖσ Ἀθηναίοισ ἐπικειμένοισ καὶ παίουσι δυσμεταχείριστοσ, οὐ μόνον στέρνα καὶ κεφαλήν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ γυῖα χρυσῷ καὶ χαλκῷ καὶ σιδήρῳ καταπεφραγμένοσ, τοῦτον μὲν ᾗ τὸ κράνοσ ὑπέφαινε τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν ἀκοντίου στύρακι παίων τισ ἀνεῖλεν, οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι Πέρσαι προέμενοι τὸν νεκρὸν ἔφευγον. (Plutarch, , chapter 14 5:1)
  • ἐκτείνων ὥσπερ πλεκτάνασ τὸ πολύπραγμον καὶ διάβολον καὶ κακόηθεσ ἄγριοσ καὶ θηριώδησ καὶ δυσμεταχείριστοσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 19 16:1)
  • ἁλὴσ δὲ ἐὼν ὁ ναυτικὸσ στρατὸσ δυσμεταχείριστόσ τε αὐτοῖσι γίνεται, καὶ ἀρχὴν οὐκ ἀξιόμαχοί τοι ἔσονται, καὶ πᾶσ ὁ ναυτικὸσ τῷ πεζῷ ἀρήξει καὶ ὁ πεζὸσ τῷ ναυτικῷ ὁμοῦ πορευόμενοσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 236 3:2)

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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