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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

  • ἰὼ ματρῷαι λέκτρων ἆται κοιμήματά τ’ αὐτογέννητ’ ἐμῷ πατρὶ δυσμόρου ματρόσ, οἱών ἐγώ ποθ’ ἁ ταλαίφρων ἔφυν· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • βωμοὶ γὰρ ἡμῖν ἐσχάραι τε παντελεῖσ πλήρεισ ὑπ’ οἰωνῶν τε καὶ κυνῶν βορᾶσ τοῦ δυσμόρου πεπτῶτοσ Οἰδίπου γόνου. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode20)
  • φεῦ τῆσ ἀνύμφου δυσμόρου τε σῆσ τροφῆσ, τί δή ποτ’, ὦ ξέν’, ὧδ’ ἐπισκοπῶν στένεισ; (Sophocles, episode 3:16)
  • δυσμόρου τ’ ἐμοῦ τρίτησ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:39)
  • δυσμόρου γε δύσμορα. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode15)

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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