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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

  • ἄκουε δὴ καὶ ἑτέρου ζωγράφου, ὡσ μὲν σὺ φαίησ ἄν, ἀλαζονευομένου, ὡσ δὲ οἱ ταῦτα δεινοὶ λέγουσιν, οὐ μεῖζον ἢ προσῆκον φρονήσαντοσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 1)
  • ἀχθόμενοσ δ’ ἐπὶ τῇ κωλύσει καὶ δι’ ὀργῆσ ἔχων τὸν Νέβιον ὁ βασιλεὺσ καταβαλεῖν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπιστήμην εἰσ τὸ μηδὲν ἐπεχείρησεν, ὡσ ἀλαζονευομένου καὶ μηθὲν ἀληθὲσ λέγοντοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 3:1)
  • ἄκουε δὴ καὶ ἑτέρου ζωγράφου, ὡσ μὲν σὺ φαίησ ἂν, ἀλαζονευομένου, ὡσ δὲ οἱ ταῦτα δεινοὶ λέγουσιν, οὐ μεῖζον ἢ προσῆκον φρονήσαντοσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 22:3)

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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