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δυσοσμία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσοσμία

Structure: δυσοσμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from du/sosmos

Sense

  1. an ill smell, ill savour

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν καὶ τοῦ οἰκήματοσ ἡ δυσοσμία καὶ τὸ πνῖγοσ, ἐν ταὐτῷ πολλῶν δεδεμένων καὶ ἐστενοχωρημένων ^ καὶ μόλισ ἀναπνεόντων, καὶ τοῦ σιδήρου ὁ ψόφοσ καὶ ὕπνοσ ὀλίγοσ ‐ ταῦτα πάντα χαλεπὰ ἦν καὶ ἀφόρητα οἱῴ ἀνδρὶ ἐκείνων ἀήθει καὶ ἀμελετήτῳ πρὸσ οὕτω σκληρὰν τὴν δίαιταν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 28:5)

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

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