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δύσμορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσμορος δύσμορον

Structure: δυσμορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = du/smoiros,

Sense

  1. ill-fated, ill-starred, with ill fortune

Examples

  • ἃ δ’ ἀμφὶ τοῖν σοῖν δυσμόροιν παίδοιν κακὰ νῦν ἐστι, ταῦτα σημανοῦσ’ ἐλήλυθα. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:11)
  • αἰαῖ, φεῦ, ἔστιν ἔστι νῷν δὴ οὐ τὸ μέν, ἄλλο δὲ μή, πατρὸσ ἔμφυτον ἄλαστον αἷμα δυσμόροιν στενάζειν, ᾧτινι τὸν πολὺν ἄλλοτε μὲν πόνον ἔμπεδον εἴχομεν, ἐν πυμάτῳ δ’ ἀλόγιστα παροίσομεν ἰδόντε καὶ παθόντε. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. ill-fated

Related

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

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