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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

  • "τὴν Φωκίωνοσ οὐχ ὁρᾷσ γυναῖκα προϊοῦσαν ἀεὶ μετὰ μιᾶσ θεραπαινίδοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀλαζονεύῃ καί διαφθείρεισ τὴν γυναικωνῖτιν; (Plutarch, chapter 19 2:3)
  • ἂν δέ μοι φρενιτικοῦ τόνουσ ἔχων ἐνδεικνύῃ[σ] καὶ ἀλαζονεύῃ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ, ἐρῶ σοι ὅτι "ἄνθρωπε, ζήτει τὸν θεραπεύσοντα. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 3:1)

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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