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ἁμιλλάομαι?

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: hamillaomai

Principal Part: ἁμιλλάομαι

Structure: ἁμιλλά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: ἅμιλλα

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

  • ἅπαντι γοῦν τότε χρῆται τῷ δρόμῳ καὶ ὅλον ἐπιδοὺς ἑαυτὸν τῷ τάχει ἁμιλλᾶται καὶ πρὸς τοῦ πεδίου τὸ κάλλος. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 10:3)
  • εἶτα περὶ ἀκοντίου βολῆς εἰς μῆκος ἁμιλλῶνται. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 27:4)
  • οὐ ῥᾴδιον, ὦ Προμηθεῦ, πρὸς οὕτω γενναῖον σοφιστὴν ἁμιλλᾶσθαι: (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 20:1)
  • τῷ μὲν δικαίῳ τόνδ ἁμιλλῶμαι λόγον: (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:12)
  • τί γὰρ πρὸς τοὺς σθένοντας θεοὺς ἁμιλλᾶσθαι καλόν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 11:3)

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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