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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

  • ὡσ ἐν παρέργῳ τῆσ ἐμῆσ δυσπραξίασ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 2:26)
  • κἀγὼ μετέσχον Πριαμίδαισ δυσπραξίασ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 3:18)
  • οἴμοι κελεύθου τῆσ τ’ ἐμῆσ δυσπραξίασ, οἴμοι δ’ ἑταίρων· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 3:2)
  • Ἐλθὼν δὲ ἐμπόρουσ τε πάντασ ἐξήλαυνε καὶ ἑταίρασ καὶ μάντεισ καὶ θύτασ, οἷσ διὰ τὰσ δυσπραξίασ οἱ στρατιῶται περιδεεῖσ γεγονότεσ ἐχρῶντο συνεχῶσ· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 2:1)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ τἀκ τῆσ δυσπραξίασ πράγματα. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:13)

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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