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Strong's #1418 - δυσ-
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- prefix conveying the idea of difficulty, opposition, injuriousness, similar to our "mis-" or "un-" prefixes
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δῠσ-,
insepar. Prefix, opp. εὖ, un-, mis -, with notion of hard, bad, unlucky, etc., as δυσήλιος, δύσαγνος; destroying the good sense of a word, or increasing its bad sense: hence, joined even to words expressing negation, as δυσάμμορος, δυσανάσχετος; poet. in strong contrasts, as Πάρις Δύσπαρις, γάμος δύσγαμος. Before στ, σθ, σπ, σφ, σχ, the final ς was omitted, v. δυστ -. (Cf. Skt. du[snull ]-, dur -, e.g. durmanâs, = cross δυσμενής; ONorse tor -, e.g. torsóttligr (δύσμαχος); OIr. du-, do -, e.g. dochruth 'misshapen'.)
δυς(, an inseparable prefix conveying the idea of difficulty, opposition, injuriousness or the like, and corresponding to our mis-, un- (Curtius, § 278); opposed to εὖ.
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δυσ -,
inseparable prefix, opp. to εὖ , like un-, mis- (in unrest, mischance), giving the idea of difficulty, opposition, injuriousness, etc.
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