Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δυσπρόσοιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπρόσοιστος δυσπρόσοιστον

Structure: δυσπροσοιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prosoi/somai, fut. mid. of prosfe/rw

Sense

  1. hard to approach

Examples

  • ὦ σπέρματ’ ἀνδρὸσ τοῦδ’, ἐμαὶ δ’ ὁμαίμονεσ, πειράσατ’ ἀλλ’ ὑμεῖσ γε κινῆσαι πατρὸσ τὸ δυσπρόσοιστον κἀπροσήγορον στόμα, ὡσ μή μ’ ἄτιμον, τοῦ θεοῦ γε προστάτην, οὕτωσ ἀφῇ με μηδὲν ἀντειπὼν ἔποσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode17)

Synonyms

  1. hard to approach

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

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