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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w-, *dew-, *dū- (“to injure, destroy, burn”). Compare Sanskrit दू (dū, “pain, distress”), Latin duellum (“war”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dý.ɛː/ → /ˈðy.i/ → /ˈði.i/
Noun
δῠ́η • (dúē) f (genitive δῠ́ης); first declension
- (poetic) misery, pain, anguish
Inflection
Further reading
- “δύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δύη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δύη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δύη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δύη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- anguish idem, page 29.
- distress idem, page 242.
- dolefulness idem, page 246.
- grief idem, page 373.
- heaviness idem, page 393.
- lamentation idem, page 474.
- melancholy idem, page 524.
- misery idem, page 534.
- pain idem, page 588.
- sadness idem, page 730.
- sorrow idem, page 795.
- torment idem, page 881.
- trouble idem, page 897.
- unhappiness idem, page 920.