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δυσπραξία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπραξία

Structure: δυσπραξι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pra/ssw

Sense

  1. ill success, ill luck

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

  • τὰ γὰρ περισσὰ κἀνόνητα σώματα πίπτειν βαρείαισ πρὸσ θεῶν δυσπραξίαισ ἔφασχ’ ὁ μάντισ, ὅστισ ἀνθρώπου φύσιν βλαστὼν ἔπειτα μὴ κατ’ ἄνθρωπον φρονῇ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:4)
  • αὐτοὶ γὰρ ἡμεῖσ ὄντεσ ἐν τάφοισ τότε τοῖσ τἀμὰ παρβαίνουσι νῦν ὁρκώματα ἀμηχάνοισι πράξομεν δυσπραξίαισ, ὁδοὺσ ἀθύμουσ καὶ παρόρνιθασ πόρουσ τιθέντεσ, ὡσ αὐτοῖσι μεταμέλῃ πόνοσ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. ill success

Related

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

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