Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • Δημοσθένησ δ’ ὅταν ἀλαζονεύηται, πρῶτον μὲν μεθ’ ὁρ́κου ψεύδεται, ἐξώλειαν ἐπαρώμενοσ ἑαυτῷ, δεύτερον δέ, ἃ εὖ οἶδεν οὐδέποτε ἐσόμενα, τολμᾷ λέγειν εἰσ ὁπότ’ ἔσται, καὶ ὧν τὰ σώματα οὐχ ἑώρακε, τούτων τὰ ὀνόματα λέγει, κλέπτων τὴν ἀκρόασιν καὶ μιμούμενοσ τοὺσ τἀληθῆ λέγοντασ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 992)
  • ἀλλ’ ὦ τᾶν ὁρ́α μὴ οὐκ εἰκῆ ταῦτα ἀλαζονεύηται, ἀλλὰ παροξυντικὰ εἰσ τοὺσ Ἀχαιοὺσ ἐξεπίτηδεσ λέγῃ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:6)

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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