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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

  • τῆσ σῆσ λατρείασ τὴν ἐμὴν δυσπραξίαν, σαφῶσ ἐπίστασ’, οὐκ ἂν ἀλλάξαιμ’ ἐγώ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 2:2)
  • Καὶ οἱ μὲν ἐπὶ τούτοισ διεκρίθησαν, ὁ δὲ Μανίλιοσ αἰδούμενοσ τὴν δυσπραξίαν τὴν ἐσ Ἀσδρούβαν αὐτῷ γενομένην, αὖθισ ἐσ Νέφεριν ἐστράτευε, πεντακαίδεκα ἡμερῶν τροφὰσ ἐπαγόμενοσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 4:1)

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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