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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

  • δυοῖν δὲ παίδοιν δύο νεκρὼ κατόψεται μήτηρ, ἐμοῦ τε τῆσ τε δυστήνου κόρησ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:6)
  • ὤμοι μάλ’ αὖθισ, τέκνα, δυστήνου σφαγῆσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 1:3)
  • νῦν δὲ δυστήνου γυναίου ἕνεκα χρὴ ἀνεστράφθαι τὰ πάντα καὶ ἀκαμπεστέρουσ μὲν γενέσθαι τοὺσ ἵππουσ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀργίασ, δύσπορον δὲ τὴν ὁδὸν ἀτριβῆ μένουσαν τριῶν ἑξῆσ ἡμερῶν, τοὺσ δὲ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀθλίωσ ἐν σκοτεινῷ διαβιοῦν. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:4)
  • δεινὸν τὸ κοινὸν σπλάγχνον, οὗ πεφύκαμεν, μητρὸσ ταλαίνησ κἀπὸ δυστήνου πατρόσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:3)
  • ὦ δύστηνοσ καὶ δυστήνου πατρὸσ Οἰδιπόδα, τί ποτ’; (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, anapests3)

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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