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

  • μὴ ἀλαζονεύου ἐνώπιον βασιλέωσ, μηδὲ ἐν τόποισ δυναστῶν ὑφίστασο. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 25:6)
  • εἰσ κίβδηλον ἐλογίσθημεν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἀπέχεται τῶν ὁδῶν ἡμῶν ὡσ ἀπὸ ἀκαθαρσιῶν. μακαρίζει ἔσχατα δικαίων καὶ ἀλαζονεύεται πατέρα Θεόν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 2:16)
  • 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)
  • "τὴν Φωκίωνοσ οὐχ ὁρᾷσ γυναῖκα προϊοῦσαν ἀεὶ μετὰ μιᾶσ θεραπαινίδοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀλαζονεύῃ καί διαφθείρεισ τὴν γυναικωνῖτιν; (Plutarch, chapter 19 2:3)
  • "τὸ δ’ ἡδέωσ ζῆν ἂν ἅπτωνται πλείονα περὶ τούτου λέγειν οὐκ ἐῶσιν ἡμᾶσ, ὁμολογοῦντεσ αὐτοὶ μικρὸν εἶναι τὸ τῆσ σαρκὸσ ἡδύ, μᾶλλον δ’ ἀκαρέσ, εἴ γε δὴ μὴ κενολογοῦσι μηδ’ ἀλαζονεύονται, Μητρόδωροσ μὲν λέγων ὅτι πολλάκισ προσεπτύσαμεν ταῖσ τοῦ σώματοσ ἡδοναῖσ, Ἐπίκουροσ δὲ καὶ γελᾶν φησι ταῖσ ὑπερβολαῖσ τοῦ περὶ τὸ σῶμα νοσήματοσ πολλάκισ κάμνοντα τὸν σοφόν οἷσ οὖν οἱ πόνοι τοῦ σώματοσ οὕτωσ εἰσὶν ἐλαφροὶ καὶ ῥᾴδιοι, πῶσ ἔνεστί τι ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ ἀξιόλογον; (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 317)

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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