ΔΥΣΘΑΝΑΤΗΣΑΣ, δυσθανατησας
DYSTHANATĒSAS, dysthanatēsas
Sounds Like: doos-tha-na-TAY-sas
Translations: dying with difficulty, having died a hard death, having died a painful death
From the root: ΔΥΣΘΑΝΑΤΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle, meaning 'having died a hard or painful death'. It is a compound word formed from 'δυσ-' (dys-), meaning 'badly' or 'with difficulty', and 'θανατέω' (thanateō), meaning 'to die' or 'to wish for death'. It describes someone who experienced a difficult or agonizing death.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 1:90
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΥΣΘΑΝΑΤΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΔΥΣΘΑΝΑΤΟΥΝΤΕΣ — dying with difficulty, dying hard, struggling in death, suffering in death
- ΔΥΣΘΑΝΑΤΟΥΝΤΩΝ — dying with difficulty, struggling in death, dying a hard death, of those dying with difficulty, of those struggling in death
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