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δύστηνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύστηνος

Structure: δυστην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. for du/ssthnos; but the origin of -sthnos is uncertain.

Sense

  1. wretched, unhappy, unfortunate, disastrous, unhappy are they
  2. wretched

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative δύστηνος δύστηνον
Genitive δυστήνου δυστήνου
Dative δυστήνῳ δυστήνῳ
Accusative δύστηνον δύστηνον
Vocative δύστηνε δύστηνον
DualN/A/V δυστήνω δυστήνω
G/D δυστήνοιν δυστήνοιν
PluralNominative δύστηνοι δύστηνα
Genitive δυστήνων δυστήνων
Dative δυστήνοις δυστήνοις
Accusative δυστήνους δύστηνα
Vocative δύστηνοι δύστηνα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective δύστηνος δυστήνου δυστηνότερος δυστηνοτέρου δυστηνότατος δυστηνοτάτου
Adverb δυστήνως δυστηνότερον δυστηνότατα

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

  • ἀοιδῶν οἵδε δύστηνοι λόγοι. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:4)
  • ἀοιδῶν οἵδε δύστηνοι λόγοι. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 40 1:1)
  • ἄμμεσ δ’ οὔτε λόγω τινὸσ ἄξιοι οὔτ’ ἀριθμητοί, δύστηνοι Μεγαρῆεσ ἀτιμοτάτῃ ἐνὶ μοίρῃ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 50)
  • τοῖσ δὲ δύστηνοι νόσοι φθείρουσι θυμόν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 10)
  • νῦν δὴ ὅλαι δύστηνοι ἐσ ἓν κακὸν ἁρπασθεῖσαι, ἐσ βυθὸν ἐξ ἀχανοῦσ χάσματοσ ἠρίπετε, Βοῦρα καὶ εἰσ Ἑλίκην ^ κεκλυσμέναι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 423 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. wretched

Related

Similar forms

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

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