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διαγωνίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαγωνίζομαι διαγωνιοῦμαι

Structure: δι (Prefix) + ἀγωνίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to contend, struggle or fight against
  2. to fight desperately, contend earnestly

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

  • μονομαχεῖν δὲ οὗτοι ἐπὶ μισθῷ ἀνδρολογηθέντεσ εἰσ τρίτην ἡμέραν διαγωνιεῖσθαι ἔμελλον. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 57:4)
  • ὁ δὲ καὶ πλείω προσδανεισάμενοσ ἔφη διαγωνιεῖσθαι. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 7 2:2)
  • Ἀντίγονοσ δὲ τὴν μάχην πυθόμενοσ Πτολεμαῖον μὲν ἀγενείουσ νενικηκότα ἔφη νῦν αὖθισ διαγωνιεῖσθαι πρὸσ ἄνδρασ, τοῦ δὲ υἱοῦ τὸ φρόνημα καθελεῖν καὶ κολοῦσαι μὴ βουλόμενοσ οὐκ ἐνέστη πάλιν αἰτουμένῳ μάχεσθαι καθ’ αὑτόν, ἀλλ’ ἀφῆκε. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 6 1:1)
  • ὁρῶν γὰρ τὸ τῶν ἐναντίων δεξιὸν κέρασ ὠχυρωμένον τοῖσ τε θηρίοισ καὶ τοῖσ κρατίστοισ τῶν ἱππέων ἀντέταξε τοὺσ ἐλαφροτάτουσ τῶν ἱππέων, οἳ κατὰ στόμα μὲν ἤμελλον φυγομαχήσειν ἀραιοὶ διαστάντεσ, ἐκ μεταβολῆσ δὲ διαγωνιεῖσθαι καὶ τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ ποιήσειν ἄπρακτον τῶν ἐναντίων τοῦτο τὸ μέροσ ᾧ μάλιστα ἐπίστευον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 29 1:2)
  • εὐχερέστερον γὰρ πολλῷ διαγωνιεῖσθαι κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον, ταῖσ τε χορηγίαισ ὑπερέχοντα καὶ τόπων ὀχυρότητι πιστεύοντα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 93 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. to contend

  2. to fight desperately

Derived

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

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