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δύσπορος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: dysporos

Principal Part: δύσπορος δύσπορον

Structure: δυσπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to pass, scarce passable

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἄλλως γὰρ δύσπορος ἡ ὁδός. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 25)
  • πᾶς δὲ ποταμὸς δύσπορος, πᾶς δὲ ὄχλος φοβερός, φοβερώτατον δ ἐρημία: (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 10:4)
  • ἀναζευγνύοντι δ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀναχωροῦντι ποταμὸς ἦν ἐν μέσῳ δύσπορός τε καὶ ἰλυώδης, καὶ παρ αὐτὸν ἐνήδρευον οἱ πολέμιοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 5:6)

Synonyms

  1. hard to pass

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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