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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

  • ἢ αἰσχρολογίαν ἔχουσιν, οὔτε θεῶν τιμαῖσ οὔτε δαιμόνων οἰέται προσήκειν χρηστῶν, ἀλλ’ εἶναι φύσεισ ἐν τῷ περιέχοντι μεγάλασ μὲν καὶ ἰσχυράσ, δυστρόπουσ δὲ καὶ σκυθρωπάσ, αἳ χαίρουσι τοῖσ τοιούτοισ, καὶ τυγχάνουσαι πρὸσ οὐθὲν ἄλλο χεῖρον τρέπονται· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 26 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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