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δυστυχής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυστυχής δυστυχές

Structure: δυστυχη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: tu/xh

Sense

  1. unlucky, unfortunate
  2. ill-starred, harbinger of ill

Examples

  • αἰεὶ γυναῖκεσ ἐμποδὼν ταῖσ συμφοραῖσ ἔφυσαν ἀνδρῶν πρὸσ τὸ δυστυχέστερον. (Euripides, episode, iambic 14:11)
  • ποριζόμεθα δὲ ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ ὧν ἡμῖν δεῖ δυστυχέστερον μᾶλλον ἢ εὐπρεπέστερον, ὡσ ἥδιστα νεωστὶ ἐβουλόμεθα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 58 3:5)
  • ὅθεν πολὺ κάκιον καὶ δυστυχέστερον γένοσ ἐγένετο, ἀσθενέστερον τοῦ γυναικείου καὶ θηλύτερον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 64:2)

Synonyms

  1. unlucky

  2. ill-starred

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

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