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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

  • "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)
  • διὰ τοῦτο οἱ πλεῖστοι προσποιοῦνται τὰ τοιαῦτα καὶ ἀλαζονεύονται· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 137:4)
  • τί δ’ ἄλλο γ’, ἔφη, εἰ μὴ γέλωτα ποιεῖν ἐθέλοντεσ ὑπὲρ οὗ λέγουσι ταῦτα καὶ ἀλαζονεύονται; (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 12:5)

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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