Δύσοιμος

going badly

Translated by Catharine Roth9 Feb 2004Vetting: high3 revisions

11 words

[Meaning] hard to travel. As if [to say], leading to misfortune.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δύσοιμος· δύσοδος. οἷον, ἐπὶ κακῷ ἄγουσα.

Betacode

*du/soimos: du/sodos. oi(=on, e)pi\ kakw=| a)/gousa.

Very similar entry in Hesychius. There as well as here, the glossing shows that the headword adjective comes from a context where it is feminine: Aeschylus, Choephori 945 (genitive singular, in reference to tu/xa "chance": web address 1); cf. LSJ s.v.