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παγχάλεπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παγχάλεπος παγχάλεπον

Structure: παγχαλεπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. most difficult to deal with, ill affected

Examples

  • ταύτῃ δ’ αὖ, διὰ τὴν τῆσ ἀπιστίασ ῥώμην, εἴρηκα ἀμφότερα ταῦτα εἶναι παγχάλεπα μεῖναι κατὰ νόμον. (Plato, Laws, book 8 71:1)

Synonyms

  1. most difficult to deal with

Related

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

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