δυστυχία

From δῠσ- (dŭs-, “bad”) +‎ τῠ́χη (tŭ́khē, “fortune, fate”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, “feminine abstract substantive”).

δῠστῠχῐ́ᾱ • (dŭstŭkhĭ́ā) f (genitive δῠστῠχῐ́ᾱς); first declension

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.

     Kaì ho mèn toiaútēi ḕ hóti engútata toútōn aitíāi etethnḗkei, hḗkista dḕ áxios ṑn tôn ge ep’ emoû Hellḗnōn es toûto dustukhías aphikésthai dià tḕn pâsan es aretḕn nenomisménēn epitḗdeusin.

     • 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.

• “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 (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], 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.
• δυστυχία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

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

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

δυστυχία • (dystychía) f (plural δυστυχίες)

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

• (antonym(s) of “unhappiness”): ευτυχία f (eftychía, “happiness”)

• δυστυχία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language