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δύστροπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύστροπος δύστροπον

Structure: δυστροπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/pw

Sense

  1. hard to turn, intractable

Examples

  • δοκεῖ δὲ καὶ γέλωτοσ οἰκεῖοσ ὁ Κικέρων γεγονέναι καὶ φιλοσκώπτησ, τό τε πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ μειδίαμα καὶ γαλήνην παρεῖχε, τῷ δὲ Δημοσθένουσ ἀεί τισ ἐπῆν σπουδή, καὶ τὸ πεφροντικὸσ τούτο καὶ σύννουν οὐ ῥᾳδίωσ ἀπέλειπεν ὅθεν καὶ δύσκολον αὐτὸν οἱ ἐχθροὶ καὶ δύστροπον, ὡσ αὐτόσ φησιν, ἀπεκάλουν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Demosthenes with Cicero, chapter 1 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to turn

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

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