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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

  • δυσμεταχειριστότερον οὐδέν ἐστιν. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 14:2)
  • διὰ ταύτην οὖν τὴν διπλόην καὶ θηρίου γίνεται ἄνθρωποσ δυσμεταχειριστότερόν τε καὶ ἀγριώτερον· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 143)

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

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