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δυσοίκητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσοίκητος δυσοίκητον

Structure: δυσοικητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bad to dwell in

Examples

  • τούτων δὲ τὰ πέρατα τὰ μὲν διὰ θάλποσ, τὰ δὲ διὰ ψῦχοσ, τὰ δὲ διὰ ὕδωρ, τὰ δὲ δι’ ἀνυδρίαν δυσοίκητα. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 28:2)
  • οὐδέποτε δὲ τὰ ὄρεα ἐκλείπει‧ ἀπὸ τούτων δὲ δυσοίκητά ἐστιν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xix.4)

Synonyms

  1. bad to dwell in

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

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