2001 Translation

DYSMACHŌTATON, dysmachōtaton

Sounds Like: doos-mah-KHO-tah-ton

Translations: most difficult to fight, most hard to contend with, most unmanageable in battle

From the root: ΔΥΣΜΑΧΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is a superlative adjective, meaning 'most difficult to fight' or 'most unmanageable in battle'. It is a compound word formed from 'δυσ-' (dys-), meaning 'difficult' or 'bad', and 'μάχομαι' (machomai), meaning 'to fight'. It describes something or someone that presents the greatest challenge in combat or conflict.

Inflection: Superlative, Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 7 — 7:136

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΥΣΜΑΧΟΣ.

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.

• ΔΥΣΜΑΧΟΝ — hard to fight against, difficult to contend with, invincible, a hard to fight against, an invincible
• ΔΥΣΜΑΧΟΣ — hard to fight, hard to contend with, difficult to overcome
• ΔΥΣΜΑΧΩΝ — hard to fight, hard to contend with, difficult to overcome

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