Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἁμιλλάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁμιλλάομαι

Structure: ἁμιλλά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a(/milla

Sense

  1. to compete, vie, contend with, to contend in or with, about
  2. being matched
  3. to strive, struggle, to

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • εἶτα περὶ ἀκοντίου βολῆσ εἰσ μῆκοσ ἁμιλλῶνται. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 27:4)
  • ὅταν γὰρ τέλοσ αἱ τῶν ἱππέων ἅμιλλαι λάβωνται, ἀποπηδῶντεσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁρμάτων οἱ παροχούμενοι τοῖσ ἡνιόχοισ, οὓσ οἱ ποιηταὶ μὲν παραβάτασ, Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ καλοῦσιν ἀποβάτασ, τὸν σταδιαῖον ἁμιλλῶνται δρόμον αὐτοὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 73 5:1)
  • μιμοῦνται δ’ ἥκιστα τὴν τοιαύτην προαίρεσιν, ἁμιλλῶνται δὲ τοῖσ θυμοῖσ καὶ ταῖσ τιμωρίαισ πρὸσ τούτουσ, οἷσ πολεμοῦσι τούτων αὐτῶν ἕνεκα. (Polybius, Histories, book 22, d. olymp. 148, 3. res aegypti 3:1)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ ἐπιδημήσαντασ ξένουσ ἅπαντεσ ἀξιοῦσι παρ’ αὑτοῖσ ποιεῖσθαι τὰσ καταλύσεισ καὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἁμίλλῶνται περὶ τῆσ φιλοξενίασ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 34 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. to compete

  2. to strive

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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