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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: dýstokos Transliteration B: dystokos Transliteration C: dystokos Beta Code: du/stokos

English (LSJ)

ον,

   A born for mischief, δάκος E.Fr.863.

German (Pape)

[Seite 689] schwer gebärend; zum Unheil geboren, Eur. bei Ael. H. A. 14, 6.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

δύστοκος: -ον, μετὰ πόνου γεννῶν. ― Ἐπίρρ. δυστόκως ἔχειν Εὐστ. Πονημ. 326. 53. ΙΙ. ὁ ἐπὶ κακῷ γεννηθείς, Εὐρ. Ἀποσπ. 855.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ος, ον :
enfanté pour le malheur, funeste.
Étymologie: δυσ-, τίκτω.

Spanish (DGE)

-ον
1 nacido para causar desgracia λύγκα, δ. δάκος E.Fr.863.
2 difícil de parir δύστοκα μὲν γὰρ εἶναι τὰ τεθνηκότα Porph.Gaur.5.3.
3 que pare con dificultad, que le cuesta parir (αἱ γυναῖκες) κατὰ δὲ σκοτομηνίας δύστοκοι ἄγαν Chrysipp.Stoic.2.212, ἔτι δὲ ἄνω κειμένων τῶν ὑστερῶν ἀνάγκη δυστόκους γίνεσθαι Phlp.in GA 16.6.

Greek Monolingual

, -η, -ο (AM δύστοκος, -ον)
αυτή που έχει δύσκολο τοκετό
αρχ.
αυτός που γεννήθηκε για κακό.

Greek Monotonic

δύστοκος: -ον (τίκτω), αυτός που γεννά με πόνο.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

δύστοκος: рожденный на беду (δάκος Eur.).

Middle Liddell

δύσ-τοκος, ον τίκτω
bringing forth with pain.