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ἀλαζονεύομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλαζονεύομαι

Structure: ἀλαζονεύ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a)lazw/n

Sense

  1. to make false pretensions

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

  • ἐδόκει δὲ τοῖσ μὲν ἀλαζονεύεσθαι, τοῖσ δ’ εἰκότα λέγειν, εἰ Θρᾷκασ ἐκ γῆσ ἐπαγαγὼν πολλοὺσ ἀκοντιστὰσ καὶ ἱππεῖσ προσμάχοιτο καὶ διαταράττοι τὸ στρατόπεδον αὐτῶν. (Plutarch, , chapter 37 2:1)
  • ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν ἐδόκει καὶ τοῦ ἀλαζονεύεσθαι ἀποτρέπειν τοὺσ συνόντασ τοιάδε διαλεγόμενοσ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 7 6:2)
  • παῤ ὑμῖν δὲ ἂν διεξίω τὸν τῆσ φυγῆσ χρόνον, οὐκ ὀδύρεσθαί με φήσει τισ, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον ἀλαζονεύεσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 5:3)
  • καθάπερ οὖν ὅταν ἰατρὸσ βουλόμενοσ τεμεῖν τινα ἢ καῦσαι παρασχεῖν αὑτὸν ἢ πιεῖν φάρμακον ἀηδέσ, δειλὸν εἰδὼσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἀνόητον, ἑτέρων μνημονεύῃ τῶν ὑφ̓ αὑτοῦ σωθέντων διὰ τὸ πεισθέντασ ὑπομεῖναι τὴν θεραπείαν, οὐδείσ φησιν ἀλαζονεύεσθαι τὸν ταῦτα λέγοντα· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 9:2)
  • τὸ δέ γε φῆσαι φιλοσοφεῖν καὶ ἀλαζονεύεσθαι καὶ αὑτὸν ἐξαπατῆσαι καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ οὐδὲν ἴσωσ κωλύει. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 17:3)

Synonyms

  1. to make false pretensions

Derived

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

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