Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δυσμήχανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσμήχανος δυσμήχανον

Structure: δυσμηχαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mhxanh/

Sense

  1. hard to effect.

Examples

  • Οὕτωσ οὖσαν φύσει δυσμήχανον τὴν πόλιν τειχίζων ὁ Ιὤσηποσ ἐποίησεν ὀχυρωτέραν ὑπονόμοισ τε καὶ διώρυξιν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to effect

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

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