Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δυσπέρατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπέρατος δυσπέρατον

Structure: δυσπερατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to get through

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἤκουσαν πλησίον εἶναι τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, κατεστρατοπέδευσαν ἐπί τινοσ γεωλόφου περιεχομένου ῥείθροισ βαθέσι καὶ δυσπεράτοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 38 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. hard to get through

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

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