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δυστήρητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυστήρητος δυστήρητον

Structure: δυστηρητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: thre/w

Sense

  1. hard to keep

Examples

  • ἀπιὼν δὲ πάλιν ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ, καὶ μὴ προνοήσασ ἐξόπισθεν ἄχρι τῶν θυρῶν ἐπακολουθοῦντα τὸν Κλεομένη, πικρῶσ ἐπετίμησε τοῖσ φύλαξιν ὡσ δὴ μέγα θηρίον καὶ δυστήρητον ἀμελῶσ φυλάττουσι καὶ ῥᾳθύμωσ. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 36 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to keep

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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