Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δύσνυμφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσνυμφος δύσνυμφον

Structure: δυσνυμφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nu/mfh

Sense

  1. ill-wedded or ill-betrothed

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὦ τῶν χαλκεγχέων Τρώων ἄλοχοι μέλεαι, καὶ κοῦραι <κοῦραι> δύσνυμφοι, τύφεται Ἴλιον, αἰάζωμεν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, lyric4)
  • ἱππείοισ δ’ ἐν δίφροισι ψαμάθων Αὐλίδοσ ἐπέβασαν νύμφαιον, οἴμοι, δύσνυμφον τῷ τᾶσ Νηρέωσ κούρασ, αἰαῖ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. ill-wedded or ill-betrothed

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

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