δυσ-
δυσ-, un-
δῠσ-, insepar. Prefix, opp. εὖ,
- un-, mis-, with notion of hard, bad, unlucky, etc., as δυσήλιος, δύσαγνος; destroying the good sense of a word, or increasing its bad sense: hence, joined even to words expressing negation, as δυσάμμορος, δυσανάσχετος; poet. in strong contrasts, as Πάρις Δύσπαρις, γάμος δύσγαμος. Before στ, σθ, σπ, σφ, σχ, the final ς was omitted, v. δυστ-. (Cf. Skt. duṣ-, dur-, e.g. durmanās, = δυσμενής; ONorse tor-, e.g. torsóttligr (δύσμαχος); OIr. du-, do-, e.g. dochruth ‘misshapen’.)
prefijo que indica negación.
•Cf. ai. duṣ-, dur-, av. duš-, duž-, gót. tuz-, air. du, do-, arm. t-; prob. de la r. *dus- que en grado pleno da lugar a δεύομαι ‘necesitar’, ‘ser inferior’ < *δευσ-. ai. doṣa- ‘falta’.
δυσ-
- insepar. Prefix, like un- or mis- (in un-lucky, mis-chance), destroying the good sense of a word, or increasing its bad sense.