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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

  • ὃ δέ γε καὶ τότ’ ἠμφεγνόουν, <ἐν> ποτέρᾳ τὸν σοφιστὴν θετέον, οὐδὲ νῦν πω δύναμαι θεάσασθαι σαφῶσ, ἀλλ’ ὄντωσ θαυμαστὸσ ἁνὴρ καὶ κατιδεῖν παγχάλεποσ, ἐπεὶ καὶ νῦν μάλα εὖ καὶ κομψῶσ εἰσ ἄπορον εἶδοσ διερευνήσασθαι καταπέφευγεν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 122:6)

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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