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δυσπρόσοδος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπρόσοδος δυσπρόσοδον

Structure: δυσπροσοδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to get at, difficult of access, unsocial

Examples

  • ἔστι δὲ παραπλησία τῷ μεγέθει καὶ τῷ σχήματι τῷ κατ’ Αἴγυπτον καλουμένῳ Δέλτα, πλὴν ἐκείνου μὲν θάλαττα τὴν μίαν πλευρὰν καὶ τὰσ τῶν ποταμῶν ῥύσεισ ἐπιζεύγνυσι, ταύτησ δ’ ὄρη δυσπρόσοδα καὶ δυσέμβολα καὶ σχεδὸν ὡσ εἰπεῖν ἀπρόσιτα. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 49 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to get at

Related

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

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