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δύσμορφος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσμορφος δύσμορφον

Structure: δυσμορφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: morfh/

Sense

  1. misshapen, ill-favoured

Examples

  • οὔτε τὸ δύσμορφον πάντωσ ἀνύποπτον ὑπάρχει, οὔτ’ ἀκολασταίνειν πᾶσα πέφυκε καλή, καὶ γάρ τισ διὰ τὴν ὡρ́αν τοῖσ πολλὰ διδοῦσιν οὐχ ἕπεται· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 563)
  • "εἰ δὲ δύσμορφον ἡ ὗσ καὶ θολερόν, ἀλλ’ οὐ κανθάρου καὶ γυπὸσ καὶ κροκοδείλου καὶ αἰλούρου τὴν ὄψιν ἀτοπώτερον ἢ τὴν φύσιν ἀμουσότερον οἷσ ὡσ ἁγιωτάτοισ ἱερεῖσ Αἰγυπτίων ἄλλοισ ἄλλοι προσφέρονται. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. misshapen

Related

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

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