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δύσποτμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσποτμος δύσποτμον

Structure: δυσποτμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unlucky, ill-starred, unhappy, wretched, curses

Examples

  • ἦν γὰρ δὴ καὶ τὸ τῶν Πελασγῶν γένοσ Ἑλληνικὸν ἐκ Πελοποννήσου τὸ ἀρχαῖον, ἐχρήσατο δὲ τύχαισ δυσπότμοισ εἰσ πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα, μάλιστα δ’ εἰσ τὴν πολύπλανόν τε καὶ οὐδενὸσ τόπου βέβαιον οἴκησιν, πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ περὶ τὸ καλούμενον νῦν Ἀχαϊκὸν Ἄργοσ ᾤκησαν αὐτόχθονεσ ὄντεσ, ὡσ οἱ πολλοὶ περὶ αὐτῶν λέγουσι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 17 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. unlucky

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

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