Ancient Greek

Noun

δυστυχία • ‎(dustukhía) f ‎(genitive δυστυχίας)

1. misfortune; ill luck
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.LXXXVI

     καὶ ὁ μὲν τοιαύτῃ ἢ ὅτι ἐγγύτατα τούτων αἰτίᾳ ἐτεθνήκει, ἥκιστα δὴ ἄξιος ὢν τῶν γε ἐπ' ἐμοῦ Ἑλλήνων ἐς τοῦτο δυστυχίας ἀφικέσθαι διὰ τὴν πᾶσαν ἐς ἀρετὴν νενομισμένην ἐπιτήδευσιν.

     • 1874 translation by Richard Crawley

       This or the like was the cause of the death of a man who, of all the Hellenes in my time, least deserved such a fate, seeing that the whole course of his life had been regulated with strict attention to virtue.

Inflection

References

• δυστυχία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δυστυχία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «δυστυχία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δυστυχία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adversity idem, page 15.
  • affliction idem, page 17.
  • calamity idem, page 108.
  • catastrophe idem, page 118.
  • disaster idem, page 228.
  • failure idem, page 301.
  • haplessness idem, page 384.
  • lucklessness idem, page 504.
  • mischance idem, page 533.
  • misfortune idem, page 534.
  • unluckiness idem, page 924.

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ðistiˈçia]
• Hyphenation: δυ‧στυ‧χί‧α

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek δυστυχία f ‎(dustukhía, “misfortune”).

Noun

δυστυχία • ‎(dystychía) f ‎(plural δυστυχίες)

1. misfortune; an undesirable event
2. (uncountable) unhappiness

Declension

Antonyms

• (unhappiness)
  • ευτυχία f ‎(eftychía, “happiness”)

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