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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.iz.dy̌ːs/ → /o.iˈzys/ → /o.iˈzis/
Noun
ὀϊζύς • (oïzús) f (genitive ὀϊζύος); third declension
- woe, misery, distress, hardship, suffering
Declension
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Further reading
- “ὀϊζύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀϊζύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀϊζύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὀϊζύς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “ὀϊζύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press