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δύσνιπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσνιπτος δύσνιπτον

Structure: δυσνιπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ni/zw

Sense

  1. hard to wash out

Examples

  • ἐγὼ γὰρ ὧν ὁ θήρ με Κένταυροσ, πονῶν πλευρὰν πικρᾷ γλωχῖνι, προυδιδάξατο παρῆκα θεσμῶν οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ἐσῳζόμην χαλκῆσ ὅπωσ δύσνιπτον ἐκ δέλτου γραφήν. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. hard to wash out

Similar forms

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

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