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ἀγωνίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγωνίζομαι

Structure: ἀγωνίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to contend for a prize
  2. to fight
  3. to contend for the prize on the stage, to contend for victory
  4. to contend against, to fight, to fight against
  5. to struggle, to exert oneself
  6. to be won by a contest, to be brought to issue, the contested points, under debate, shall be brought to issue

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αἱ πολλοὺσ πολλάκισ ἠγωνισμέναι καὶ μεγάλουσ ἀγῶνασ Ἀρετὴ καὶ Τύχη πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ μέγιστον ἀγωνίζονται τὸν παρόντα, περὶ τῆσ Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίασ διαδικαζόμεναι ποτέρασ γέγονεν ἔργον καὶ ποτέρα τὴν τηλικαύτην δύναμιν γεγέννηκεν. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 11)
  • τῶν δ’ ἀληθινῶν ἀποφθεγμάτων Ἀλεξάνδρου πρῶτον ἄν τισ τὰ παιδικὰ διέλθοι ποδωκέστατοσ γὰρ τῶν ἐφ’ ἡλικίασ νέων γενόμενοσ καὶ τῶν ἑταίρων αὐτὸν ἐπ’ Ὀλύμπια παρορμώντων, ἠρώτησεν, εἰ βασιλεῖσ ἀγωνίζονται· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 9 8:1)
  • ποδωκέστατοσ γὰρ τῶν ἐφ’ ἡλικίασ νέων γενόμενοσ καὶ τῶν ἑταίρων αὐτὸν ἐπ’ Ὀλύμπια παρορμώντων, ἠρώτησεν, εἰ βασιλεῖσ ἀγωνίζονται· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 9 3:1)
  • οὔτε δι’ ὃ θαρραλεώτερον ἀγωνίζονται, τοῦτο ἀνδρεία. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 47:1)
  • ἀλλὰ τούτων οὐδὲν ἔμελεν Θεοπόμπῳ οὐδὲ Μακαρτάτῳ τουτῳί, ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μόνον, τὰ μὴ προσήκοντα ἑαυτοῖσ ἔχειν, καὶ ἐγκαλεῖν ὅτι πολὺν χρόνον ἐχόντων ἑαυτῶν τὸν κλῆρον νυνὶ ἀγωνίζονται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 102:2)

Synonyms

  1. to contend for a prize

  2. to fight

  3. to contend against

  4. to struggle

Related

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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